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Shri Thanedar: “It's impacting our GDP and it will continue to impact.”

Featuring: Shri Thanedar, Democratic | U.S. House Michigan, 13th Congressional District

Conversations With U.S. House of Representatives Members | #MPC26

Published June 2, 2026 | Video Starts at 42:41

And I have talked at this conference, I have talked with business owners, I've talked both the H2B visa program. People just can't get enough skilled and unskilled labor to grow their businesses. It's impacting our GDP and it will continue to impact. If this current trend and thinking in Washington D.C. about anti immigrant, anti migration and anti fixing our immigration system, broken immigration system, then it's going to continue to impact our technology businesses. (42:41–42:46)

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Asserts that the labor shortage is impacting the GDP and will continue to do so.

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