🔗 Share this article Trump Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025 The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed. Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery. The number of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees 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 sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics. The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters. Overall, the business aimed to employ 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year. Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions. “You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of US workers. The administration refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.