A quarter-million people are “waiting in line” to get one of President Donald Trump’s “gold card” visa applications that give recipients who pay $5 million a path to citizenship, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday.

“There are 250,000 people waiting in line now,” Lutnick said, according to The Hill. “If they’re willing to pay the $5 million, that’s over a trillion dollars that comes directly to — $1.25 trillion just for that line. And I think these people are going to come enormous ways because they know they can come into America, and they can be in the greatest country on earth.”

Trump earlier this week floated the plan to offer an exclusive immigration visa, which would replace the EB-5 program, put in place 35 years ago.

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