Sen. Marsha Blackburn Strips AI Moratorium From Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Budget

Feeding the Warfare State

The Senate is on the verge of passing the distinctly misnamed “big beautiful bill.” It is, in fact, one of the ugliest pieces of legislation to come out of Congress in living memory. The version that passed the House recently would cut $1.7 trillion, mostly in domestic spending, while providing the top 5% of taxpayers with roughly $1.5 trillion in tax breaks. Over the next few years, the same bill will add another $150 billion to a Pentagon budg…

Shelly Palmer - Senate strips AI regulation ban from the big tax bill

99-1 tally indicates a 10-year ban was a bridge too far.

Here’s where Utah Republicans fought Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

Utah created a first-in-the-nation government office last year to regulate AI companies that balances supporting innovation while keeping Utahns safe. So when a potential federal moratorium on AI regulation moved toward to a Senate vote, state leaders started speaking out.

Nebraska’s Pillen among 17 Republican governors to oppose congressional AI moratorium

LINCOLN — As the federal “one big beautiful bill” continues to move through Congress, one provision related to AI that Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen and 16 other Republican governors opposed has been removed, at least for now. The ever-changing federal…

Blackburn leads charge in preventing moratorium of state AI regulation

Senator successfully removed provision from “Big Beautiful Bill” hours before Republican-majority Senate passed controversial legislation

Big Bill's AI Regulatory Ban Was Shot Down 99-1

A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the Senate on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure into President Trump's big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts. The Senate voted 99-1 to strike the AI provision from the legislation after...