Marjorie Taylor Greene regrets voting for House GOP budget bill over AI provision

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said she regrets voting for the House GOP budget bill over an AI provision that she had not realized was in it.

"Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the ['One Big Beautiful Bill'] that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years," Greene posted on X on Tuesday. "I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there.

"We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free rein and tying states hands is potentially dangerous," she continued. "This needs to be stripped out in the Senate. When the OBBB comes back to the House for approval after Senate changes, I will not vote for it with this in it.

"We should be reducing federal power and preserving state power. Not the other way around. Especially with rapidly developing AI that even the experts warn they have no idea what it may be capable of."

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., told NOTUS on Tuesday that he welcomed Greene’s belated opposition.

“I mean yes, that’s great,” Hawley said when asked about Greene’s post. “But hopefully we can kill it in the Senate.”