WASHINGTON DC – Top White House officials spent the weekend trying to repair the damage caused by President Donald Trump ’s shambolic announcement on Friday regarding the future of visas for skilled overseas workers hired by American companies.

Alongside his Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Trump unveiled a new, extortionate message to the foreign-born employees and the US businesses that rely on them: pay up, or ship out. But his decision to apply a starting price of $100,000 (£74,211) annually for recipients of the coveted American H1-B visa was met with fury at home and abroad, and a mad scramble by the White House to row back on some of the announcement’s key details.

Lutnick portrayed the existing 700,000 H1-B recipients as shysters who have been ripping the country off. The P

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