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Honest question: let’s say that Congress suddenly realizes what their job entails and what powers belong to them.

The article mentions that 1,000 of these visas have been sold and up to 1,000,000 may be.

If Congress says “no, this isn’t authorized” and the Supreme Court finally cracks open the Constitution and agrees with them: what does a rollback plan look like?

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Probably the same as those students getting rolled up by ICE. Except it's a valet taking them to the executive terminal.

Probably a lot like putting down a $2K deposit on a Cybertruck range extender. If there's one thing Elon should be competent at by now, it's processing refunds.

The 1000 sold is very iffy. I'm not sure they have beyond a vague intention. I think it's just based on a comment Lutnick made on a podcast.

AFAIK a visa can be revoked for any reason. I’m also willing to wager that any costs would not be refunded because let’s be serious this is Trump we are talking about

That's normal. Pretty much no residency or citizenship by investment programs will refund the 'investment' unless it is denied during the initial application process.

People buying that stuff usually don't care and it doesn't seem to have much effect on the other programs, even ones that have cancelled even citizenships in the past (like Saint Lucia) without returning the 'investment.'

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