Palantir Touts $2 Billion in Income from Aiding Trump Administration’s ‘Uncommon’ Operations

Palantir earned a report $1.855 billion in income from the American authorities in 2025, the corporate stated in an earnings report that exceeded market expectations.

“We additionally did this whereas supporting, in vital method, a number of the most fascinating, intricate, uncommon operations that the U.S. authorities has been concerned in, lots of which we will’t touch upon, however had been the spotlight of final 12 months and had been extremely motivating to all of us at Palantir,” CEO Alex Karp stated on the investor name.

Palantir’s “motivating” enterprise with the U.S. authorities grew 55% year-over-year in 2025. In simply the final three months of the 12 months, Palantir made $570 million in income, with 66% development year-over-year.

Most of that income was pushed by the corporate’s work for the Division of Protection, “in addition to accelerating momentum in civil businesses,” Palantir’s chief income officer Ryan Taylor stated.

Palantir’s shut relationship with at the least certainly one of these civil businesses has been on the coronary heart of rising public scrutiny, and that’s the Division of Homeland Safety.

The DHS has been counting on Palantir software program in its effort to turbocharge the Trump administration’s violent crackdown on immigrants. Final 12 months, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement company paid Palantir $60 million to construct a surveillance platform referred to as ImmigrationOS to trace self-deportations. Only a few months later, an Amnesty Worldwide report claimed that Palantir’s AI software program was used to focus on non-citizens who converse out in favor of Palestine.

ICE additionally makes use of Palantir tech to determine which neighborhoods to focus on for deportation raids. This system is known as ELITE (brief for Enhanced Lead Identification and Concentrating on), and it was first unveiled in a 404 Media report final month and later corroborated in a DHS report on AI use instances within the Division.

The identical report additionally says that ICE makes use of Palantir AI to evaluate, summarize, and categorize ideas despatched to the company.

Karp himself has been outspoken in favor of Trump’s immigration coverage, going as far as to say that he’ll use his “whole influence to make sure this country stays skeptical on migration.”

However Palantir’s partnership with Washington goes far past simply immigration. Many elements of the federal government depend on Palantir software program, most notably the Pentagon and notably by way of a $480 million deal for an AI-powered target identification system called Maven.

“Our weapons software program is in each fight state of affairs [that] I’m conscious of,” Karp stated. In actual fact, the CEO claims it’s been so efficient that his chief know-how officer Shyam Sankar’s “telephone rings off the hook all day, and what they need from him is ‘how do I do that similar factor throughout authorities?’”

Karp’s ordinary retort to accusations that Palantir is aiding the administration in immoral (and a few argue illegal) actions is that the corporate’s software program is the one approach the general public can guarantee the federal government’s actions stay constitutional. He has used this reasoning when defending the usage of Palantir software program in Caribbean boat strikes that many specialists consider to be war crimes, and he used it once more within the investor name to thrust back fears of Palantir-driven mass surveillance.

Karp argues that Palantir is constructing know-how that may maintain the federal government accountable to the authorized limits of its surveillance, and be certain that “each establishment that makes use of our product is doing it inside conformity of the legislation and the ethics of America.”

However what occurs when these “legal guidelines and ethics” themselves develop into questionable? Properly, Palantir continues to receives a commission.

Take Palantir’s work for the Division of Well being and Human Providers. For roughly the previous 12 months, Palantir has equipped AI instruments to assault authorities packages, contracts, and grants that don’t match with the Trump administration’s views on gender, surroundings, and race, in line with a lately printed report on AI use instances at HHS.

The Division has been utilizing Palantir AI to ensure that all grants and jobs adjust to Trump’s government orders concentrating on DEI and “gender ideology.”

Since they had been signed a 12 months in the past, each government orders have led to many federal layoffs, together with some concentrating on non-DEI-related positions, and main cuts to funding for essential analysis. The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention even needed to scrub any mentions of phrases like “gender,” “LGBT,” or “environmental justice,” retracting and even pausing some analysis submissions, whereas Trump cut greater than 1,600 analysis grants on the Nationwide Science Basis.