President Donald J. Trump and his newly confirmed Commerce Department Secretary Howard Lutnick have announced the United States will soon end the EB-5 visa program. Foreign nationals have abused the program through fraud to cheaply purchase a green card, officially known as a Permanent Resident Card. The announcement, made as President Trump fielded questions from the press in the Oval Office, marks a significant shakeup in the U.S. visa system.
According to the America First leader, the EB-5 visa program will instead be replaced by what Trump describes as a “Gold Card.” Foreign nationals looking to attain U.S. residency will face a new series of requirements, with Trump floating a $5 million payment to the U.S. Treasury for the purposes of paying down the national debt, along with other guarantees on investments and creating jobs for American workers.
Commerce Secretary Lutnick explained, “So the EB-5 program was really… it was all full of nonsense, make-believe, and fraud. And it was a way to get a green card that was low price. So the President said, rather than having this sort of ridiculous EB-5 program, we’re going to end the EB-5 program, and we’re going to replace it with the Trump Gold Card.”
The abuse of U.S. visa programs has been a major issue for President Trump’s MAGA political base. Shortly before Trump’s inauguration in January, social media descended into a policy fight between the America First leader’s MAGA supporters and billionaire Elon Musk over H-1B visas. The work visa program is rife with fraud and abuse, costing American workers jobs and allowing already wealthy companies to import tens of thousands of cheap foreign workers every year. […]
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Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
But even as it seems nearly impossible to make a living, there are blessings that should not be disregarded. By highlighting strong sponsors who share our America First worldview, we have been able to make lifelong connections and even a bit of revenue to help us along. This is why we enjoy symbiotic relationships with companies like MyPillow, Jase Medical, and Promised Grounds. We help them with our recommendations and they reward us with money when our audience buys from them.
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Even our faith-driven precious metals sponsor helps us tremendously while also helping Americans protect their life’s savings. We are blessed to work with them.
Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
Thank you and God Bless,
JD Rucker
