Donald Trump’s “gold card” visa, where a foreigner can shell out at least $1 million to legally live and work in the U.S., has been approved for one person, said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Thursday — appearing to fall a bit short of an earlier claim.
After it launched in December, Lutnick said that the government had sold $1.3 billion “worth” in just several days, as Trump stood by holding up the gilded ticket and said, “essentially it’s the green card on steroids.”
Lutnick did not address the apparent discrepancy in an exchange with a congresswoman at Thursday’s committee hearing.
The types of visas that are available and the rules for them are set by laws passed by Congress. Trump doesn’t have the power to just unilaterally create a new visa category. So if you look at the fine print, this is actually some other already existing category that allows the president to admit individuals at discretion, and the fee is just a donation to the US Treasury. That’s also why it’s not racking up a bunch of court challenges.
Until such a time as someone actually stops him from doing whatever the fuck he wants, he absolutely does.
it’s incredible to me that, today, there are people in the USA who think rules and laws still apply… this is at week 6 of a not-a-war that the orange pedophile did not have the power to unilaterally commit the country to
I mean where have you been? If laws and rules no longer had any meaning then why is the administration being forced to give back the tariff money and repeal them? Why was the admistration forced to re-hire thousands of federal employees it illegally terminated? Why was the national gaurd forced to leave several cities?
These were all decided by the courts and the administration complied. I’m not saying compliance is perfect, and I’m not saying the administration isn’t trying to do very undemocratic things. But clearly there is still some rule of law.
Also yes the president can wage war like that. We do have a law on the books that gives the president basically 60 days to do whatever he wants with the military. Cold war era law that was poorly written
lol it was 30 day when this war started that “military operations” were allowed… it’s been 54 day to today, I’m sure you’ll be arguing an extension in 6 days to pretend there is still some level of control
my point is that drawing the conclusion that, if trump did x it must be legal somehow because he could not posibly do an illegal thing is laughable
I’m sorry you were misinformed but it’s been 60 days since 1973.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/24/trumps-may-1-deadline-can-he-continue-war-on-iran-after-that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution
Basically a President can tell Congress I’m doing this. Do whatever for 60 days, then they have another 30 days to wind down the conflict and withdrawal troops.
Basically Trump can be there for 90 days without breaking any laws. I’m not saying we should be there or that Trump doesn’t break laws. He clearly does both of those he’s a felon after all, but if we are just plain wrong and call legal things illegal then it distracts from the actual crimes.
The presidential war powers act needs to be repealed, but that’s another topic
Ok then… we’ll talk in 36 days so I can hear the next excuse ;-)
There will be no excuse then it can be added to the list of crimes that in a just world we’d hang his cheeto crusted ass for.
Now stop being a smug weirdo about it
Sorry, can’t hear you over the high horse you are ridding on a dumpster of a country
Edit: ignore me. @[email protected] has a better comment that brings the receipts.
Not sound like a Devil’s Advocate, but IIRC from High School history, Lincoln had the authority to mobilize the US Army for 90 days to fight the Confederates. Seems like that was a major part of the delay in declaring the Civil War a war (that is, the Union thought the Confederates would be easily pushed over w/i the 3 months that Lincoln could just do whatever he wanted with the Army).
As good as Lincoln was, I understand he played a bit fast and loose with war time powers of the president and most contemporary criticism of him was relayed to to that.
But anyway, I assumed that power hadn’t been significantly changed over the century and a half since.
Sure, as atrocious as these rules of war are, I get the point and was wrong about the initial 30 days limit
I still think my original point stands, Trump has openly broken many laws and has never been held accountable (and that is not counting the SCOTUS ruling that basically says he can do whatever he wants as president) so expecting that the orange pedophile will not do something because it is illegal, is naive at best when the most that can be conjured against that argument is that if he does something illegal, some time later after the damage is all done, he may have to backtrack and still suffer no legal consequences.
It’s incredible to me that, today, you’re willing to just give up all rules and laws without even an argument.
my dude, i can argue with someone who agrees with me or i can argue with the wall. i can’t argue with someone in charge. i’d rather go play pogs
Look at all the “HE CAN’T DO THAT”s in the rearview mirror and tell us we’re wrong.
I swear to Christ, US liberals have had Groundhog Day syndrome for a solid year. Things have escalated and your response hasn’t changed a fucking iota.
recognizing the laws have no teeth or enforcement is not giving them up, it’s simply accepting the problem which is the very first step to solve it
He gets to order ICE around and they get to decide who actually gets the rough treatment.
That said, I wouldn’t count on this visa being worth much once Trump is gone. So I can understand why nobody is enthusiastic about paying his bribe.
Why do you know that it’s going to the treasury and rules have never stopped him before.