Trump Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis published recently claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to 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 H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.