Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025

The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report released Thursday claimed.

According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.

The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.

It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.

The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.

In total, the business aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.

Notably, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.

“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of US workers.

The White House declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.