Trump Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025

The former president’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis published recently claimed.

According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.

The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.

It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data.

The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.

In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.

Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.

“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.

The administration refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.