Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report released Thursday stated.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this week for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House declined a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
