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The Trump administration pauses the green card lottery program

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  • Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the Trump administration would pause the diversity visa lottery.
  • In an X post, she said the suspect in the Brown and MIT shootings had entered through the program.
  • The green card lottery program issues about 55,000 visas a year.

Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, says the Trump administration would pause the diversity visa lottery program in the wake of the Brown University and MIT shootings.

In an X post on Thursday, Noem said that the man wanted in connection to the Brown University shooting had entered the US in 2017 through the program, commonly known as the green card lottery.

She added that President Donald Trump had long opposed the lottery.

“At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program,” she wrote.

The diversity visa entry program offers 55,000 visas a year to people from countries with low rates of immigration to the US. It’s a multi-step process that includes an interview and medical examination.

Valente, a Portuguese national and former Brown University student, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a New Hampshire storage facility, officials said in a press conference on Thursday.

In addition to killing two and wounding several others in the Brown University shooting, officials said they also believed he is connected to the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor earlier this week.




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Trump gives Nvidia the green light to sell its H200 chips in China

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Nvidia just scored a win from President Donald Trump.

In a post on Truth Social on Monday, Trump said he told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that the US would allow Nvidia to sell its H200 chips to “approved customers” in China.

“This policy will support American Jobs, strengthen US Manufacturing, and benefit American Taxpayers,” Trump said in the post.

Trump said, “$25% will be paid to the United States of America.” He has previously proposed having the US take a cut of chip sales to China.

Nvidia’s stock was up in after-hours trading following Trump’s announcement.

“We applaud President Trump’s decision to allow America’s chip industry to compete to support high paying jobs and manufacturing in America,” a spokesperson for Nvidia said in a statement to Business Insider. “Offering H200 to approved commercial customers, vetted by the Department of Commerce, strikes a thoughtful balance that is great for America.”

Nvidia’s powerful H200 chips have been in high demand as AI models become more powerful.

While Nvidia was already able to sell some of its other chips to China, the US government has limited its ability to sell some powerful chips due to national security concerns. Sales of its H20 chips to China during Q3 were “insignificant,” CFO Colette Kress said on its latest earnings call.

“While we were disappointed in the current state that prevents us from shipping more competitive data center compute products to China, we are committed to continued engagement with the US and China governments and will continue to advocate for America’s ability to compete around the world,” Kress said during the Q3 earnings call.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met with Trump last week to discuss export controls on chips.

“I’ve said repeatedly that we support export control, that we should ensure that American companies have the best and the most and first,” Huang told reporters last week.

Nvidia stock was up roughly 2% after hours.




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