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All In Interview - Congressman Ro Khanna - Recap and Notes October 2 2025

 

All In Interview - Congressman Ro Khanna: October 2 2025

  • 4th time on the pod
  • H1B
    • There is abuse
    • Disagrees with 100K fee and Trump’s tactics - but agrees with direction
    • Hurts startups
    • Calls out TCS, Cognizant, etc
    • Need Chinese AI talent
    • Supports faster green card approvals for talented folks
    • Companies will just offshore the jobs to their overseas HQs
  • TDS
    • Acknowledges Biden administration border controls (lack of)
    • Disagrees with Trump asylum shutdown
    • Agrees with Trump on prescription drug issue
    • Democrats need to call balls and strikes like Ro
    • Both sides need to tone down hateful rhetoric
  • Tech leaving the Democrats
    • 95/100 tech were all Democrats (even Chamath)
    • Biden administration looked at SV as money machine - it was instead about culture
    • Trump shows he can act - he listened at the dinner and then for example helped push back on EU pressure on Google
    • But does he listen to everyone? Doesn’t seem to be working with tariffs
  • Economic patriotism
    • Need to double down on AI
    • Need to think about job displacement
    • 20% youth unemployment in China
  • Government shutdown
    • Dems can’t give votes for a budget that instead of being appropriated by Congress becomes discretionary for Trump
    • Healthcare for illegals is 10% - not the majority of the money (this is Emergency medicaid)
  • Censorship and extreme rhetoric
  • Lawfare
  • Crime
    • His constituents live in safe cities (Fremont, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, etc) - and have prosperous companies
    • Country is letting Trump send in the National Guard to unsafe cities because they are frustrated
  • Mamdani surge
    • He acknowledges that NYC is unaffordable
  • Congressional stock trading ban
    • Supports it

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