The Trump administration on Thursday announced an executive order expanding the ongoing crackdown against H-1B visa abuse.

The H-1B is a visa program designed to allow companies to bring in high-skilled workers when no qualified Americans are available. But the program has faced considerable scrutiny in recent years, due to widespread fraud. Critics have argued that major employers also use it as a way to undercut American wages.

Trump's Thursday order reaffirms the $100,000 application fee he imposed last year, but now mandates inter-agency coordination to consider an employers's recent or planned layoffs when applying for H-1B visas.

"Our message to corporate America is simple: We’re not going to let you lay off American workers so you can replace them with cheap foreign labor," Vice President JD Vance said.

The administration also touted the success of earlier initiatives in reducing abuse. Notably, the administration stated that H-1B registrations from the largest IT outsourcing firms had dropped by 92%.

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent for Just the News. Follow him on X.