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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    22 hours ago

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    The presidential war powers act needs to be repealed, but that’s another topic

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      19 hours ago

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

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        19 hours ago

        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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          19 hours ago

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