Grassley tweets at Trump: Call me on H1B visas

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) tweeted at President Trump Sunday evening, trying to get his attention and support on a bipartisan bill on a certain kind of visa.

Grassley tweeted after a CBS News “60 Minutes” report on the H1B visa program that allows foreign workers with “specialty occupations” to work in the United States. The “60 Minutes” report focused on American workers who’ve had to train their replacements before losing their jobs.

Grassley seized on the broadcast news program’s report to tout a bill he’s sponsoring with Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) that he says would “correct this injustice.”

{mosads}In subsequent tweets, Grassley thanks the president for “getting on board” and suggests the administration get in touch with a former Grassley staffer who now works for the Department of Homeland Security.

“Call my office I will tell WHO SHE IS,” Grassley suggested.

“If u don’t hv time to call tell SecyKelly to call me,” he added, name-checking Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.

If u just saw CBS 60minutes abt ripoff H1B visa program is replacing AmWorkers u shld know my/Durbin bill will correct this injustice

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) March 20, 2017

@POTUS read my previous tweet and thx to Pres Trump for getting on board. REMEMBER we can do somethings bipartisan and H1B is good example

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) March 20, 2017

@POTUS If u want a real expert on fixing H1B a former staffer of mine just moved to HomelandSecurity Call my office I will tell WHO SHE IS

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) March 20, 2017

@POTUS If u don’t hv time to call tell SecyKelly to call me

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) March 20, 2017

@POTUS In other words I’ve been waiting for six yrs for a president interested in fixing H1B and that person has finally arrived/DRAIN SWAMP

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) March 20, 2017