Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) credited President Donald Trump as “a business guy” when addressing the president’s plan to sell gold cards to wealthy immigrants but acknowledged that the idea is “very unusual.

Trump said he will replace the "EB-5" immigrant investor visa program, which allows foreign investors of large sums of money that create or preserve U.S. jobs to become permanent residents, with a so-called "gold card.

During the first meeting of his second-term Cabinet, Trump suggested that the new revenue generated from the program could be used to pay off the