Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’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 same, a report published Thursday stated.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers.
The administration refused a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
