Tent Partnership for Refugees Statement on the Trump Administration’s FY2026 Refugee Admissions Cap

NEW YORK — The Trump administration announced today that it has set its refugee admissions ceiling for the next year at 7,500 individuals, down from a ceiling of 125,000, set in the last year of the Biden Administration. This decision limits a lawful pathway for vulnerable refugees who clear rigorous multi-agency security screening processes and arrive legally in the United States with immediate work authorization. 

Gideon Maltz, CEO of Tent Partnership for Refugees, said: “Crippling the refugee resettlement program is a major setback – for vulnerable refugees stuck in limbo, for U.S. businesses that need their skills, and for communities across the country that have been strengthened by their contributions. A ceiling of only 7,500 refugees is a major departure from the United States’ longstanding practice, including in President Trump’s first administration, which set a ceiling of 50,000 refugee admissions in 2017. The refugee resettlement program has been extraordinarily good for America – with refugees helping to address labor shortages in key industries struggling to find talent, going on to found iconic American businesses, and always contributing far more in taxes than they receive in benefits; dismantling it today is not putting America first.”

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About the Tent Partnership for Refugees 

With more and more refugees displaced around the world, businesses have a critical role to play in helping them integrate economically in their new communities.Tent was launched in 2016 by Hamdi Ulukaya, the CEO and founder of Chobani, to mobilize the world’s largest employers to fill this gap. Today, Tent is a network of hundreds of major companies committed to helping refugees access local labor markets across Europe and the Americas, including the United States, by helping them become job-ready and connecting them to work. Find out more at www.tent.org.