Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report published recently claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
