{"id":705,"date":"2026-08-24T09:29:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/?p=705"},"modified":"2026-08-24T09:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:42:07","slug":"abbotts-h-1b-ban-just-reached-schools-it-still-hasnt-reached-743-million-in-state-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/abbotts-h-1b-ban-just-reached-schools-it-still-hasnt-reached-743-million-in-state-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott&#8217;s H-1B Ban Just Reached Schools. It Still Hasn&#8217;t Reached $743 Million in State Contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Abbott has now told two different kinds of taxpayer-funded institutions, seven months apart, that they shouldn&#8217;t be paying for H-1B labor: state agencies and universities in January, public schools in August. Both times the stated reason is the same: taxpayer money.<\/p>\n<p>Neither order touches the largest taxpayer-funded H-1B channel we&#8217;ve found: private state contractors. Fourteen confirmed H-1B-sponsoring vendors have been paid $743.2 million across 1,916 Texas state contracts since 2013 &#8212; and 11 of those 14 vendors won new state contract awards on or after the day Abbott&#8217;s freeze took effect.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/tx_h1b_contractor_loophole.php'>Read the full report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Abbott has now told two different kinds of taxpayer-funded institutions, seven months apart, that they shouldn&#8217;t be paying for H-1B labor: state agencies and universities in January, public schools in August. Both times the stated reason is the same: taxpayer money. Neither order touches the largest taxpayer-funded H-1B channel we&#8217;ve found: private state contractors. &#8230; <a title=\"Abbott&#8217;s H-1B Ban Just Reached Schools. It Still Hasn&#8217;t Reached $743 Million in State Contractors\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/abbotts-h-1b-ban-just-reached-schools-it-still-hasnt-reached-743-million-in-state-contractors\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Abbott&#8217;s H-1B Ban Just Reached Schools. It Still Hasn&#8217;t Reached $743 Million in State Contractors\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,35,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h-1b","category-state-contracts","category-texas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}