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.

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    We do have a law on the books that gives the president basically 60 days to do whatever he wants with the military

    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

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      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

      The War Powers Resolution requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, with a further 30-day withdrawal period, without congressional authorization for use of military force

      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      The presidential war powers act needs to be repealed, but that’s another topic

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        Ok then… we’ll talk in 36 days so I can hear the next excuse ;-)

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          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

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            Sorry, can’t hear you over the high horse you are ridding on a dumpster of a country

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      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.

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        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.