Washington DC, Aug. 28 -- US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday announced that the Trump administration is looking at changes to the H1B visa program and Green Card system in a television interview. Terming the H1B visa system "terrible", Lutnick stressed the need for reforms to America's immigration policies. "I'm involved in changing the H1B program. We're going to change that program because that is terrible. We're going to change the Green card. The average American makes $75,000 a year and the average Green Card recipient makes $66,000. So we're taking the bottom quartile. Like, why are we doing that? That's why Donald Trump is going to change it. That's the Gold Card that is coming in. We're going to start picking the best people to come into this country," Lutnick said. The Gold Card scheme is a proposed immigration scheme that would allow foreign citizens to purchase a path to US citizenship with a price tag of $5 million. The Trump administration has pitched the scheme as a way to attract high net worth individuals to the United States. "They'll be wealthy, and they'll be successful, and they'll be spending a lot of money, and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people," Trump said earlier this year. The administration has also expressed dissatisfaction with the existing H1B and Green Card visa systems. Senior members - including Vice President JD Vance - have criticised US tech companies for prioritising foreign workers over US-born talent. "You see big tech firms laying off 9,000 employees and then applying for thousands of overseas work visas - it just doesn't add up. That kind of displacement and math concerns me. The president has said we want the best and brightest to make America their home, and that's good. But I don't support companies firing thousands of American workers and then claiming they can't find talent here," Vice President JD Vance said in a podcast interview in July. Joseph Edlow, the newly appointed director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency, has indicated that the Trump administration will tighten H1B visa rules. "I really do think that the way H-1B needs to be used, and this is one of my favourite phrases, is to, along with a lot of other parts of immigration, supplement, not supplant, US economy and US businesses and US workers," said the USCIS chief this year....