Trump Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, a report published recently stated.
According to data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the business aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions to build a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
