WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla TSLA.O and SpaceX, vowed to go to "war" to defend the H-1B visa program for foreign tech workers late on Friday amid a dispute between President-elect Donald Trump's longtime supporters and his most recently acquired backers from the tech industry.

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday sided with key supporter and billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk in a public dispute over the use of the H-1B visa, saying he fully backs the program for foreign tech workers opposed by some of his supporters.

The Tesla CEO and his DOGE counterpart Vivek Ramaswamy rose to the defense of Trump AI policy adviser nominee Sriram Krishnan early this week The post Trump Backs H-1B Visa Program After Elon Musk Vows ‘War’ During Fiery Online MAGA Debate appeared first on TheWrap.

Newsweek emailed Elon Musk via the Tesla and SpaceX press offices and Steve Bannon via his war room podcast for comment. Bannon's comments are just the latest salvo in an increasingly bitter row within Trump's MAGA [Make America Great Again] coalition over H-1B visas,

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, pledged to "go to war" to defend the H-1B visa program, which allows foreign tech workers to fill critical roles in U.S. companies. This comes amid a growing rift between President-elect Donald Trump's supporters and the tech industry over immigration and work visas.

Elon Musk will "go to war" to defend the H-1B visa program in the United States, the tech CEO wrote on X, formerly Twitter, Friday night. Musk credited the program as "the reason" he is in the U.S. and added,