Steve Bannon has slammed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick for botching the Trump administration’s announcement of a new fee for H-1B visas.

Bannon was bewildered that Lutnick incorrectly stated from the Oval Office that a $100,000 fee would be required annually for H-1B visas, forcing White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to clarify that the fee is actually a one-time expense.

“These are not tiny details in the document,” Bannon said on his show. “These are not in the footnotes. This is the deal. You’re supposed to be a deal guy. You’ve got to understand your own deal that you put before the president.”

Bannon, a White House strategist during Trump’s first term, has called for the H-1B visa program to be scrapped entirely. He has argued that the visa, awarded to highly-skilled

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