Cost Cutting at DOE/NNSA labs

Could the DOE and NNSA labs save a lot more more money if we just hire H-1B workers? I think the DOE labs have a lot of this but why not the NNSA labs. I am sure we can speed up paths to citizens and so on. It Could save a lot of money also if Vivek Ramaswamy is right the quality of worker wold be much greater, less lazy and have the right culture.

If we double the number of H-1B visas my prediction is you are going to see a drop off in US STEM students who will see the drop in salaries and less stability as a reason to do something else. This means even the NNSA labs are going to need a lot more H-1B visas for any kind of technical work.

To be honest I suspect a number of managers are kinda of hoping this happens. There is a big push for AI at the NNSA labs. If you listen closely to what they are saying it sounds like they hope AI could replace the scientists, so we could have managers and AI only, and maybe a few H-1B guys for guards and clean up. Looks like a bright future.

I am of course not being entirely serious however, there could some real consequences to DOGE, and mass increase in H-1B visas for STEM in the US.