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Trump Meets with the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026, Nov. 17, 2025

November 17, 2025 · The White House · 0:36:31

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What happened

President Donald Trump met with the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026 at the White House on November 17, 2025, joined by FIFA President Gianni Infantino. The President thanked Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, and Representative Darin LaHood, as he introduced them, and noted the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia was “coming tomorrow” — dating the session to the eve of the Saudi visit paged alongside this one.

The announcement of the day was the FIFA Pass: a prioritized visa-appointment scheduling system for World Cup ticket holders, which Infantino described as the way fans who buy tickets “can come and attend the World Cup in the best conditions, starting from getting their visa.” The President said visa wait times were now 60 days or less in more than 80 percent of the world, as he stated the figure, and urged fans to apply right away. The scale figures were put on the record in the room: between six and seven million tickets to be sold, between five and 10 million visitors expected, a $30 billion economic impact, and nearly 200,000 jobs for America — all as stated by the President and Infantino.

Why it matters

The FIFA Pass is the task force’s concrete deliverable for the tournament the United States co-hosts in the summer of 2026: a dated, checkable change to how ticket-holding visitors get visa appointments, run through the State Department and Homeland Security teams this site tracks. The chronicle files the World Cup record on the Elections & Governance hub, alongside the 250th-anniversary events of the same summer.

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Scoreboard candidate: the launch of the FIFA Pass prioritized visa-appointment system for World Cup ticket holders, announced November 17, 2025, with the $30 billion impact and nearly 200,000-jobs figures as stated in the room. Flagged for the scoreboard editor; no entry is published from this page.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Meets with the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026” (official upload, embedded above). Remarks and figures as delivered at the meeting.