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Maybe Satya can call Donald Trump? I am sure he has his phone number. They can sort it

So if you want your employees to be able to go back from vacation and back to their belongings, you have to pay a large fee. And to pay that fee, you have to talk to the president personally, otherwise you're screwed.

That's so dumb I can't believe you're suggesting it. In a rule-of-law country, lobbying the president should never be a solution to anything, much less routine bureaucracy.

Yea yea I get it - but you’re also drumming up a hypothetical scenario about Microsoft suggesting they have no way to pay the fee - I’m just suggesting a solution, not suggesting the path forward or that the abruptness of this policy change is a good idea. Satya has a direct line to the president’s office and can utilize that to help solve this acute concern if there is, as you are very confidently asserting, “no way to pay” the appropriate federal agency.

> In a rule-of-law country

here's your problem

They can "sort" it? Nudge nudge wink wink? Amazing.

Yea why wouldn’t Satya or Microsoft be able to call the president’s office and figure out how to pay the fee?

Set aside this “nudge nudge wink wink” stuff - I’m providing a solution to the acute issue, not a moral judgement.

Looks like it was sorted https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/donald-trump-h1b-vi...

"A breathtaking level of corruption" is not a solution.

That’s a separate point and unrelated to my post.

The "Trump Corporate Gold Card" sounds like something straight out of The Onion, but it is real, and presumably how these bribes will be managed:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-unveils-gold-platinum-v...

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