White House Asks Congress to Reject Bill Curbing Nvidia Exports

White House officials are urging members of Congress to reject a measure that would limit Nvidia Corp.’s ability to sell AI chips to China and other adversary nations, according to people familiar with the matter, dimming prospects for legislation opposed by the world’s most valuable company.

The so-called GAIN AI Act would create a system that requires chipmakers to give Americans first dibs on AI chips that are controlled for export to China and other arms-embargoed countries — an “America first” framing designed to appeal to the Trump administration. That would effectively bar Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. from selling their best products to the Asian country, making GAIN AI something of a bipartisan congressional pushback to President Donald Trump’s suggestions that he is open to such shipments.