Steve Bannon<\/strong>, former advisor to President-elect Donald Trump<\/strong> and a podcaster who calls his right-wing viewers<\/a> on \u201cWar Room\u201d his \u201carmy of the awakened,\u201d is decided<\/a> to get billionaire and new Trump ally<\/a> Elon Musk<\/strong> distant from the White House.<\/p>\n In an interview<\/a> with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera<\/em>, Bannon stated that he\u2019ll get it completed earlier than the president-elect takes workplace in simply over per week. \u201cI will get Elon Musk kicked out by the time he\u2019s inaugurated,\u201d Bannon instructed the outlet. \u201cHe won\u2019t have a blue pass with full access to the White House. He\u2019ll be like everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n Bannon didn’t reply to an e-mail from Vanity Fair<\/em> asking how he plans to oust Musk.<\/p>\n The pair have been dueling<\/a> over what the way forward for the Make America Great Again technique must appear like\u2014and who needs to be let into that motion\u2019s ranks and the nation\u2019s borders. Bannon, and another staunchly anti-immigration MAGA speaking heads<\/a> like Laura Loomer<\/strong>, are in opposition to the extremely coveted H-1B visa program\u2014which permits employers to rent international employees \u201cin specialty occupations or as fashion models.\u201d Specialty occupations require the visa applicant to have no less than a bachelor\u2019s diploma or its equal, per the Department of Labor. This form of visa typically goes to employees in fields resembling math, engineering, and expertise.<\/p>\n Enter Musk\u2014the richest man on the planet who additionally occurs to be the CEO of a number of firms in these fields, and who himself got here to the US as a global pupil and says<\/a> he labored<\/a> utilizing an H-1B visa. (According to reporting<\/a> from Forbes primarily based on H-1B knowledge from fiscal yr 2024, Tesla, which Musk runs, \u201cwas among the leading employers of new foreign-born scientists and engineers.\u201d)<\/p>\n