I wonder if this is applied to H1B renewals too?

IIRC technically there's no such thing as a "renewal". It's just a new application that bypasses the lottery. So given the low level of thought that goes into these EOs, the answer is almost certainly "yes"...

	▲	mtremsal 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I was wrong. They’re attaching the fee to the lottery, somehow.

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TMWNN 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Trump answered a reporter's question about this. The fee is $100K per employee per year.