Trump proposes selling US citizenship for $5m

US President Donald Trump has proposed a radical idea – selling American citizenship to wealthy foreigners for $5m. According to him, this initiative could help reduce the country's national debt, which has already exceeded $35tn.

«Золотая карта» вместо EB-5 ("Golden Card" instead of EB-5)

Trump has proposed replacing the existing EB-5 immigrant investor programme with a new scheme – the «Золотая карта» ("Golden Card"), which would be available exclusively to the wealthy. By his calculations, selling 1m such cards would bring $5tn into the treasury, and if 10m were purchased, the amount would rise to $50tn – enough to fully cover the US national debt.

Могут ли российские олигархи получить гражданство? (Can Russian oligarchs obtain citizenship?)

The former president also hinted that the programme could be available to Russian oligarchs. However, the details of this proposal remain unclear, given the current sanctions against major Russian business figures.