Netflix boss, top Dem donor Reed Hastings praises Trump’s $100K fee for H1-B visas: ‘Great solution’

Netflix boss and prominent Dem donor Reed Hastings on Sunday praised President Trump’s surprise move to hike the H-1B visa application fee for skilled workers to $100,000.

“I’ve worked on H1-B politics for 30 years. Trump’s $100k per year tax is a great solution,” Hastings wrote in a post on X to his nearly 150,000 followers.

“It will mean H1-B is used just for very high value jobs, which will mean no lottery needed, and more certainty for those jobs.”

It was an unexpected show of support, since Hastings — the co-founder and chairman of Netflix — has emerged as one of the biggest donors to the Democratic party in recent years. He gave around $7 million to former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 107-day presidential campaign, according to The Information.

Trump’s new policy, which took effect Sunday, forces companies to cough up the $100,000 visa application fee for skilled foreign workers.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the executive order is meant to encourage American companies to hire and train US workers, instead of hiring foreign ones.

“If you’re going to train somebody, you’re going to train one of the recent graduates from one of the great universities across our land. Train Americans. Stop bringing in people to take our jobs,” Lutnick said. 

Meanwhile, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is pushing for a bidding war over his $40 billion firm as David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance prepares a takeover bid – and reportedly hoping to gauge interest from Netflix, The Post exclusively reported.

Netflix, Paramount, Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery did not immediately respond to The Post’s requests for comment.

Paramount Skydance has yet to disclose an official bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns the Warner Brothers studios and the HBO Max streaming service, as well as cable networks like Discovery, TNT and CNN.

But the proposed bid could value the company at up to $24 a share, according to CNBC. It is expected to be 70% to 80% cash, backed in part by Larry Ellison, with the rest in stock.