Ankit Gupta, a general partner at Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator, is facing backlash after describing Vice President JD Vance’s call for American companies to “hire and train Americans” as a return of “DEI.”
“No, Ankit. It’s called putting your own citizens first,” Labor Department Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito wrote. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, and others publicly pushed back on Gupta’s framing as the Trump administration cracks down on H-1B abuse.
