Trump's D.C. Hotel Gave a Sweetheart Rate to a Pro-Immigrant Worker Group
Source: The Daily Beast
The group happened to be lobbying for policies that benefit the president’s other businesses.
ZACH EVERSON
05.21.18 5:18 AM ET
The Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., commanded more than $40.4 million in revenue in 2017 and it did so with a simple business strategy. To overcome a low occupancy rate, it charged President Donald Trump’s supporters, and organizations hoping to curry favor, one of the highest room rates in the city.
One group, however, got a sweetheart deal. And it just so happened to be in Washington D.C. to lobby for a policy benefiting the president’s businesses.
The Seasonal Employment Alliance held its H-2B fly-in from February 14–16, 2018 during which members descended on Capitol Hill to push for an increase in the visas that allow businesses to import temporary foreign workers. The H-2B program is popular with landscapers and farmers. It’s also popular among golf course, resort, and hotel operators—like the Trump family—because it allows them to hire foreign workers to perform low-paying seasonal jobs that would often, otherwise, go unfilled.
Last year, the Trump administration raised the H-2B visa cap from 66,000-per-year to 81,000. Three days later, the Trump Organization, from which President Trump can still profit, applied for an additional 76 of those visas to use at its properties.
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of this administration has shed light on the total moral and ethical depravity of THE pervert-in-chief and our system as controlled by the money. These days "show me the money" comes out of jareds, ivanka's, trump jr's and her father's mouth every goddamn minute. OPEN, TOTAL CORRUPTION
So ugly, this family of racist grifters and most of the voters for trump.
