No. Whatever the amounts are at any given moment, the applicant must still be eligible for lawful permanent residence, be admissible, and have a visa available under an EB-1 or EB-2 determination. The program is not a purchase of citizenship and does not waive inadmissibility. Price changes affect budgets, not the underlying legal test.
Separate the price question from the eligibility question
It is easy to spend a planning session on numbers and never reach the harder question of whether the applicant qualifies. Ask counsel to assess eligibility and admissibility on their own terms, using the actual immigration and travel history, before comparing figures from different announcements. There are also no EB-5-style job creation requirements attached to the Gold Card, which is a distinction worth confirming if earlier reading blurred the two programs together.
It is worth setting the three eligibility questions out separately, because a discussion about amounts can absorb an entire meeting without touching any of them. First, does the applicant independently qualify through an EB-1 or EB-2 determination, which turns on that person's own record. Second, is the applicant admissible, decided on its own facts and unaffected by any payment.
Third, is a visa available in the relevant category. A household that can answer the first two provisionally from documents it already holds is in a position to weigh the figures; one that cannot is budgeting for something it has not yet established it can use.