DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Writing at Axios, energy writer Amy Harder says, “The climate agenda’s fall from grace over the past year has been stunning—in speed, scale and scope.” Harder quotes oil historian and S&P Global vice-chairman Dan Yergin as saying, “There’s no handwaving about how ‘We want to cooperate on climate.’ It’s, ‘We’re slamming the door on that issue.’ We’ve gone from over-indexing it to zero-indexing it.” Polling has never shown climate change as being an issue of primary concern to American voters. Americans have consistently been more worried about issues that impact their daily lives today than about warnings from modern-day P.T. Barnums like U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres about some nebulous “highway to hell” and “the age of global boiling. The issue had been slowly losing its effectiveness during the Biden years even as that administration tried to memorialize the movement’s objectives in policy. Even Democrat politicians have quit talking about the so-called “climate emergency” which used to be a central plank in their talking points list. When was the last time you heard New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, co-author with Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of the “Green New Deal” introduced in 2019, talk about the supposed need to force ordinary citizens to give up their cars, flying, and vacations and spend trillions on a nationwide network of high-speed rails to save the planet? When was the last time you heard any Democrat utter the phrase “Green New Deal,” for that matter? It simply doesn’t happen anymore. One of the motivators for the political abandonment of the climate scam by Democrats came from a pre-election analysis from the center-left Searchlight Institute last November. That memo advised Democrat candidates to avoid using the term “climate change” entirely, and to focus on the supposed cost savings to be obtained by switching to green energy solutions. Never mind that such cost savings are a myth: The truth doesn’t matter. What matters is the ability to influence voters with the message. Therein lies the central existential threat to the movement’s survival in the coming years. For decades, liberal politicians and climate advocates were able to advance the climate alarm agenda by creating, well, alarm among the public that the world is going to end if we don’t stop putting too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Always the messaging had a deadline claiming, “We only have X number of years to stop burning fossil fuels before it’s too late!” Over the past 40 years, that deadline to act has given the term “moving the goalposts” a new green meaning. AOC claimed the drop-dead date was only 12 years in the future as she rolled out her ambition to control everyone’s daily lives in the name of climate alarm in 2019. But the very next year, in 2020, child activist Greta Thunberg moved the goalposts to a mere five years. But wait: Just a year later, Joe Biden read a script from his teleprompter that set the deadline at 10 years. It’s all so darn confusing. No doubt, these politicians and activists wish they could erase their past claims from everyone’s memory. Their trouble is, the Internet is forever. Advocates were even successful in convincing Barack Obama’s EPA to dummy up an Endangerment Finding declaring that carbon dioxide is in fact a “pollutant” that must be regulated under the Clean Air Act in order to save the planet. Never mind that CO2, otherwise known as plant food, the foundational basis for all life on Planet Earth: The truth doesn’t matter. Now, it appears that the movement is inheriting the wages of decades of deception with a sudden and stunning fall from grace. It could not happen to a more deserving bunch of people. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.   The post Is the Climate Scare Narrative Headed for Bankruptcy? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

State laws protecting women’s sports in half the country could stand to be affected depending on how the U.S. Supreme Court rules in two cases that the justices heard this week. Ohio is among them, with the state having passed such a law in January 2024. At a Jan. 15 press conference, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost spoke with The Daily Signal on how the Supreme Court decision could impact the Buckeye State. “Depending on how the Supreme Court decides and what the rationale is, it could have an impact,” Yost confirmed when it comes to the impact on state law here in Ohio, specifically H.B. 68, which includes the Save Women’s Sports Act and the SAFE Act. The attorney general further explained how state law has been met with federal and state challenges, including at the Ohio State Supreme Court. Yost has been defending the legislation at the state level. The Save Women’s Sports Act, is still “the law of the land” and is “operational,” Yost reminded, as it has been allowed to remain in effect during court challenges. Yost also said that “with the posture of these cases, I don’t think it would knock out our case here in the state,” though he stressed we don’t have an outcome yet. Such decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court may not come until late June or even early July. As the justices heard Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., Yost was in Washington, DC to speak out on the issue, joining several other Republican attorneys general to do so. The courage of these women is inspirational. These cases are basic and about common sense. Looking forward to hearing the arguments tomorrow – and later this year, hopefully vindication for the right of women to have fair, safe competition in sports! https://t.co/Hf05HUAOXH— Dave Yost (@DaveYostOH) January 12, 2026 The attorney general was able to hear the Supreme Court arguments, which he called “fascinating.” The justices were “very interested in the intellectual questions” surrounding the case, Yost claimed. “I think these state laws will probably be upheld by the Supreme Court,” Yost offered when it comes to his prediction. “The question is by what margin and how broad is the rationale.” Others also believe that the justices will uphold such state laws. Do No Harm, a group which describes itself as “a national association of medical professionals combating the attack on our healthcare system from woke activists,” also spoke to the potential ramifications of such a case as well as what’s at stake. Dr. Kurt Miceli, the chief medical director of Do No Harm told The Daily Signal that, “a win for Idaho and West Virginia at the Supreme Court will pave the way for other states across the country to pass and enforce protections for girls and force lower courts to acknowledge the binary nature of sex.” “Contrary to activists’ misinformation, blood testosterone levels alone do not fully capture the male physical advantage. Scientific evidence proves that, even before puberty, boys have a physical advantage in strength and speed over girls of the same age,” said Miceli. “We are optimistic the court will ensure biological reality is upheld and common-sense protections are reinstated.” Yost also shared a similar sentiment with The Daily Signal when it comes to what states like Ohio are aiming for with such laws: The whole reason Title IX exists is because we wanted girls and women to have exactly the same opportunities that men did, to learn teamwork and leadership and resilience, and how do you deal with a loss and how are you magnanimous in victory, and all the things that come from sports. If you say that we’re going to just let biological boys or men into girls’ and women’s sports, you’ve taken away that equality and erased 50 years of progress. The Save Women’s Sports Act, along with The SAFE Act, was part of H.B. 68, which Republican Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed in late December 2023. An override of that veto ultimately took place. State Rep. Gary Click, the Republican who introduced the SAFE Act, also shared his thoughts with The Daily Signal about how he thought oral arguments went, taking particular aim at one the liberal justices. “Apparently, Justice [Ketanji Brown] Jackson is still uncertain of what a woman is,” Click shared referring to when the now associate justice went viral during her committee hearing in 2022 as well as during Tuesday’s oral arguments. “But the rest of us have the basic competence to know the difference and to believe that women’s spaces must be protected from being invaded by men.” Ketanji Brown Jackson again reveals that she doesn't understand a man cannot become a woman. She asks if laws protecting fairness in women's sports treat "treats transgender women differently than cisgender women." That's because "transgender women" are actually men. pic.twitter.com/9y9R2UkF0O— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) January 16, 2026 “I am confident that the competent majority will agree,” Click added. The court currently includes a 6-3 majority makeup of conservatives. The Daily Signal also reached out to the Ohio chapter of the Americans Civil Liberties Union, which has come down on the side of biological men and boys being able to compete against women and girls but did not receive a response. The post Ohio AG Explains How Major Women’s Sports SCOTUS Case Could Impact Ohio appeared first on The Daily Signal.

When the Senate returns from a weeklong recess, it will have just days to avoid a partial government shutdown. The funding deal that ended the last government shutdown, the longest shutdown in American history, is set to expire on Jan. 30. The Senate has passed six of the 12 spending bills to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year. The six that remain include Defense, Labor-HHS-Education, Transportation-HUD, Financial Services, National Security-State, and Homeland Security. Senate leadership predicts that funding for Homeland Security will be the most difficult to pass because of Democrat opposition to ICE operations. Senate Makes Progress Before the Senate left Washington on Thursday afternoon, the upper chamber passed a three-bill spending package. The Senate voted 82-15 on the package that combined the Commerce-Justice-Science, Interior-Environment, and Energy-Water funding bills. The price tag for the three-bill package, which is now heading to President Donald Trump’s desk, is $180 billion. As part of the deal to end the 2025 government shutdown and reopen the government, the Senate previously passed three of the appropriations bills, Agriculture, Military Construction-VA, and Legislative Branch, with funding through the end of the fiscal year. I want to thank our colleagues on the Appropriations Committee for their diligence in crafting these bills.My hope is that we’ll be able to build on the progress we’ve made this past year to get the appropriations process back to what it should be – an open process that every… pic.twitter.com/XDdP4pHBOh— Leader John Thune (@LeaderJohnThune) January 15, 2026 Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., congratulated the members and the appropriations committee on the Senate floor on Thursday for their success so far. He noted that in 2025 the Senate was able to pass three single government funding bills before August, “through regular order, a process that gives all senators the opportunity to make their voices–and the voices of their constituents–heard,” said Thune. Homeland is The Hardest Since the ICE-involved shooting of Renee Good in Minnesota, Democrats are trying to leave out funding for the immigration agents from the DHS funding bill. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons: “I get asked a lot of time, ‘What’s the one thing that keeps you up at night?’ It’s the violence and the attacks on officers, agents, and not only them, but their families.”Acting Director Lyons joined “The Signal Sitdown” shortly after the… pic.twitter.com/SzZyF8ya9K— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) January 7, 2026 ICE increased operations in Minnesota after large-scale fraud was exposed at government-funded childcare centers. “Homeland is obviously the hardest one,” Thune said. He suggested that a continuing resolution is a possible outcome if the parties can’t negotiate. “We should not be limiting funding for homeland security in a dangerous time,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Fox News. “We need officials to allow law enforcement to do their job,” Johnson continued. Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has demanded “common sense measures” to be taken to assure immigration agents will conduct themselves, “in a manner that is at least consistent with every other law enforcement agency in the United States of America.” INSANE!Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey calls to end funding for the Department of Homeland Security and ICE.MARKEY: "We must stop funding DHS and ICE thugs…"Democrats are siding with criminals, not the American people. pic.twitter.com/Ezr25yAyFj— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 14, 2026 Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which boasts almost 100 members, has taken a more aggressive stance. “Our caucus will oppose all funding for immigration enforcement in any appropriations bills until meaningful reforms are enacted to end militarized policing practices,” Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said during a press conference. Some Republicans have been open to negotiations suggesting more training to be required for agents. “The more training they could have, the better it’ll be, because they’re dealing with some strange stuff going on that’s coming at them in a lot of different directions,” said Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va. The post Can the Senate Keep the Government Open and Fund ICE? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

On Sunday, anti-ICE agitators invaded a church sanctuary in the middle of service, a shocking escalation arguably inspired by the Left’s extreme rhetoric against immigration enforcement. “Justice for Renee Good!” shouted agitators as they walked directly into the middle of the sanctuary, surrounding worshippers in Cities Church, a non-denominational Christian church in St. Paul, Minnesota. (An ICE agent fatally shot Good while she was driving her car, right after her car hit him. She had been using the car for hours to frustrate ICE’s law enforcement efforts.) The agitators targeted the church because one of the pastors, David Easterwood, also works with ICE. An agitator who goes by the name “DaWokeFarmer” posted videos of the action. This is not peaceful protest. This is an invasion of a sacred space. Anti-ICE agitators disrupted Cities Church in the middle of service. Warning: the agitators on the Left are serious. The man who posted this video bragged about doing this—comparing it to Jesus flipping over… pic.twitter.com/BeeIdubpwM— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) January 19, 2026 DOJ Investigating Church Invasion The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is investigating the incident for potential violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced Sunday. While the Justice Department under former President Joe Biden used the FACE Act to target pro-life protesters who demonstrated outside abortion clinics, the law also protects houses of worship. The @CivilRights is investigating the potential violations of the federal FACE Act by these people desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshippers. @AGPamBondi https://t.co/uZBBv1iuuH— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) January 18, 2026 After the Biden DOJ weaponized the FACE Act to target pro-lifers, Dhillon seems ready to use the FACE Act for its intended purpose—to protect civil rights. Former CNN host Don Lemon traveled with the agitators, and claims to have merely been reporting on the incident. Yet he clearly coordinated with Nakima Armstrong, the group’s leader who previously led Minneapolis’ NAACP chapter, ahead of the church invasion. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Don Lemon (@donlemonofficial) Whatever Lemon’s involvement, the agitators who desecrated a house of God deserve to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Innocent Victims These agitators didn’t just confront a church that also employs an ICE employee. They harassed innocent men, women, and children for the crime of worshipping God. Little children do not deserve to have their songs of praise interrupted by aggressive chanting. Of course, this church invasion does not represent the first time anti-ICE agitators have harassed innocent bystanders. Agitators have also accosted a man for the crime of driving a Chevy Suburban, the same kind of vehicle ICE officers use. In a separate incident anti-ICE agitators harassed tech workers at a deli, mistaking them for ICE agents. While Lemon may cloak himself in the free speech rights of a journalist, these agitators showed no compassion for journalist Nick Sortor when he came by, asking questions. Agitators surrounded his vehicle, smashed his windows, stole his camera, and seem to have threatened his life. Make no mistake: We have roving bands of Red Guards who make it their mission to oppose law enforcement and to terrorize ICE. They’re not afraid of harassing innocents to further their agenda. Where Does This Come From? This isn’t happening in a vacuum. Earlier this month, Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz—who has yet to condemn the desecration of the church—suggested that President Donald Trump was at war with him and threatened to call the National Guard to oppose ICE agents in Minneapolis. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, also a Democrat, said ICE should “get the f— out of Minneapolis.” Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., called ICE an “occupying force.” This rhetoric comes amid the Left’s push for “sanctuary” policies that hamstring the federal government’s ability to enforce immigration law and deport illegal aliens. Democrat governors openly say that immigration law should not be enforced in their jurisdictions. On her very first day in office, Virginia’s new Democrat governor—Abigail Spanberger—rescinded the order directing law enforcement to cooperate with ICE. Democrats have even whittled away at America’s sovereignty by making my birth state of Colorado a “sanctuary state.” President Donald Trump returned to office in part because the Left had gone off the deep end on immigration. While former President Barack Obama enforced immigration law, the Left demonized immigration law under Trump, and Biden effectively opened the border, allowing millions of illegal aliens to pour into the country. A vast network of left-leaning nonprofits has demonized immigration law in the name of compassion. The Center for American Progress and the American Civil Liberties Union urged Biden to open the border. Now that Trump has closed the border and sought to deport illegal aliens, the ACLU is hard at work challenging nearly every move in the courts. Another network of nonprofits reaped rich benefits from federal grants in exchange for transporting immigrants across the country. Naturally, these groups complained to high heaven and sought to sue when Trump started clawing this money back. Now, the Left’s dark money network is funding the groups organizing anti-ICE agitators—whose aggressive tactics Renee Nicole Good employed. While Good’s death was tragic, the ICE agent who shot her arguably fired in self-defense. The Left has seized on her death as some sort of gross miscarriage of justice, taking any opportunity to demonize Trump’s attempt to bring back law and order. Trump has surged ICE officers to Minneapolis in part because local law enforcement will not work with ICE to enforce the law. Whatever you think of Trump finally enforcing immigration law in Minneapolis, I hope you will stand with me in condemning the desecration of a church. These agitators will consider no space sacred enough to trample on in their demonization of law enforcement. Americans across the country should pay close attention. The post Thanks to the Left’s Extreme Rhetoric, Anti-ICE Agitators Are Now Invading Church Services appeared first on The Daily Signal.

As the Right works to refine its stance on artificial intelligence, several coalitions are competing for the president’s attention, artificial intelligence experts tell The Daily Signal.  “Right now, behind the scenes, this is by far the most brutal fight in Washington,” former Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon told The Daily Signal. Because the stakes are high and AI regulation is a relatively new issue, the Right hasn’t determined what the unified conservative position should be. AI is “one of the most controversial issues right now in the Trump administration,” a source familiar with the administration’s thinking on AI said.  “What that combination of those factors means is that it’s extremely controversial, and Big Tech interests are definitely extremely involved in this process and want to do anything to ensure that AI policies are created that help the bottom line,” the source said.  An administration official familiar with the matter agreed AI is one of the most contentious issues facing the administration, saying the subject is “only controversial because of the way people are pushing for it and where those people come from.” The lines were clearly drawn after Trump signed an executive order on Dec. 11, ordering the attorney general to establish an AI litigation task force that would challenge state efforts to regulate AI.  The president directed White House AI czar David Sacks and Michael Kratsios, science and technology adviser to the president, to recommend federal AI legislation preempting any state laws in conflict with administration policy–drawing backlash from conservatives like Gov. Ron DeSantis and Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley. “Behind the scenes, this battle of AI regulation dwarfs everything else,” Bannon said. Divisions in the Coalition over AI The AI issue is bringing to the surface some of the wedge issues within the broader coalition that helped elect the president, said Tim Estes, founder of AngelQ, which seeks to use AI to make the internet safer for kids.  “The real division is between the free-market extremists up against the new right part of the coalition, which is going after protecting blue-collar jobs and rebuilding the manufacturing base,” Estes told The Daily Signal, “and the pro-family side that views, essentially, human dignity as the primary principle all things are built on, including economic freedom.” The pro-family side has made an alliance with the populist side and the national security side, which is concerned about Chinese influence in AI, according to Estes.  “These are three parts of the Trump coalition that actually are not aligned with the tech accelerationist crowd, and it represents the vast majority of the base, 80% plus,” Estes said. “And then you’ve got a small contingent that really is libertarian, plus the opportunistic tech community.”  “I’m not seeing a principled conservative leader get up and argue that acceleration is worth all these damages along the way,” he added.  Tech Accelerationist Coalition On paper, the accelerationist coalition is by far the strongest, Bannon said.  “The accelerationists have deep roots into the White Office of Technology Policy—plus Elon and David Sacks, the crypto czar,” Bannon said. Some tech experts believe Marc Andreessen of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is leading the accelerationist AI movement in the Republican Party. Andreessen, a former Democrat, flipped parties to donate millions to Trump’s 2024 campaign after former President Joe Biden’s efforts to regulate Big Tech.  Now, conservative tech policy experts warn of potential risks posed by members of the White House’s AI policy shop having ties to Andreessen.  “The White House Tech Policy shop is basically captive to the tech ‘Broligarchs,'” Bannon said. Andreessen has praised Sacks as “a throwback to the era of American greatness.” Sriram Krishnan, senior policy advisor for AI at the White House under AI czar David Sacks, was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz before joining the administration.  David Sacks @DavidSacks is a throwback to the era of American greatness in which the most capable private sector citizens selflessly volunteered for government service in moments of peril for a dollar a day. He is a credit to our nation, and we need more like him, not fewer. ??— Marc Andreessen ?? (@pmarca) November 30, 2025 Andreessen was a major backer of Character.AI, which has been sued by multiple families who say the AI chatbot convinced their teenagers to commit suicide.   Over the summer, Andreessen Horowitz backed a $100 million Super PAC, Leading The Future, which advocates against strict artificial intelligence safeguards. The PAC is running ads in Texas and New York, two states that have passed laws establishing safeguards on AI.  Texas has passed one law protecting minors from online content that glorifies suicide and other forms of self-harm, and another preventing the development or distribution of AI systems that produce deepfake child or other pornographic content. Andreessen Horowitz did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. Populist Coalition The populist coalition is focused on protecting jobs and rebuilding the manufacturing base, according to Estes. Steve Bannon, a leader in this movement, believes Trump’s AI policy is costing him with Gen Z Americans who are worried about job losses from AI. “I believe a major reason you do see President Trump losing some momentum with Gen Z in approval ratings is they are worried about losing jobs to AI,” he said. New polling shows Trump’s approval rating with Gen Z voters has dropped 42 points in the past year. “Remember in your 20s is the most important decade for getting into a profession—and AI is blocking that in administrative, managerial, and lower level tech,” Bannon said. AI doesn’t currently have the capability to take away American jobs, but this could change as technology continues to improve, said Joe Allen, author of “Dark Aeon: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity.” “Let’s just imagine for a moment, the capabilities continue to increase,” he told The Daily Signal. “They continue to reduce the tendency towards hallucination, companies do have prompt engineers who are able to tease out these things, then it would be a drastic job loss issue.” States can “throw sand in the gears” of harmful AI to prevent that from happening, he said. “I think the states should be used as much as possible to impede these companies’ advancement and to give avenues for redressing grievance and to as best as possible, preemptively shield the most vulnerable people from the worst parts of these systems, for instance, luring kids into suicide, or systems that are prone to sycophancy and drawing out a kind of AI psychosis from the user,” Allen said. Still, he doesn’t think the problems with AI can be solved politically. The future of AI will be determined by the culture: what Americans are willing to accept in regard to AI’s presence in their lives. “The real effect happening over the next 5-10 years, is going to be some combination of what the public’s willing to embrace, what they completely reject, and that’s going to be different from different types of people in America and across the world,” he said. “And then also what these companies are willing to do, how brash they’re willing to pursue their ambition.” He said a left-right coalition could form to address bipartisan fears about AI. Hawley already partners with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., on AI policy, and he sees such partnerships expanding. “You could end up with someone like Bernie Sanders and Marsha Blackburn, or Bernie Sanders and Ron DeSantis stepping up to address the AI issue from the left and right,” he said. A White House official told The Daily Signal AI will augment, not replace, workers. “While AI will make our workers even more productive, it cannot replace most real-world jobs,” the official said. “President Trump will always put the American worker first—the private-sector led job gains experienced so far in this Administration underscore the early signals of the success of the president’s worker-first agenda,” the official continued. Pro-Family Coalition While Big Tech views AI as fragile and in need of protection through deregulation, the pro-family coalition wants to widen the scope of voices that are allowed to speak into AI regulation, said Michael Toscano, director of the Institute for Family Studies’ technology initiative. “The fragile thing, the thing that needs to be taken care of, in our view, are the goods of family and family life, the well being of children, the ability of human beings,” he said. Toscano said the White House and Congressional Republicans need to give Americans a platform to speak into the AI debate. He suggested an interagency working group on technology and the family, and an AI council to put Kratisios in conversation with a representation of religious Americans.  “Silicon Valley should not be charged with asking philosophical, religious, or moral questions,” Toscano told The Daily Signal, “and not that they should be excluded from it, but they certainly don’t have the wisdom that these communities that have been developed have been built up over the centuries, in some cases, to be able to ask the critical questions, the most important human questions, but also the most important questions of our time.” The fundamental disagreement about AI isn’t one about technology, but about values, said Daniel Cochrane, tech policy expert at The Heritage Foundation.  “It’s a disagreement over what it means to flourish as a human being and as a society of humans,” he told The Daily Signal. “If you assume human nature is completely material and ultimately programmable, your view of what it means to flourish is very different from someone who thinks that humans are both soul and body.” A White House official said the administration has undertaken a variety of measures to teach children how to responsibly use AI, such as the Presidential AI Challenge. National Security Coalition The national security coalition, which shares some concerns about AI with the pro-family coalition, is concerned about Big Tech advancing Chinese interests. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has extensively warned about the dangers of China accessing American AI innovation. He introduced legislation that would prohibit the import from or export to China of artificial intelligence technology and prohibit U.S. companies from investing money in Chinese AI development. The national security coalition clashed with the Trump administration over the sale of Nvidia chips to China. Hawley said constraining Chinese access to American semiconductors should be the priority, rather than expanding it. “If we want to beat China, I think we need to constrain their ability to leverage our own technology,” he said. “The Broligarchs are trying to convince the White House and Capitol Hill that we can provide the [Chinese Communist Party] the entire ecosystem as far as AI is concerned, and there is no risk to that,” Bannon said. The U.S. needs to strike a balance between holding Big Tech accountable and ensuring that the U.S. doesn’t lose the AI race to China, according to Yusuf Mahmood, AI policy director at America First Policy Institute, said “There is this balance that we have to strike between ensuring that we have transparency and accountability, to ensure that we don’t have complete, fully unaccountable ring by big tech elites over this technology,” he told The Daily Signal “but we also have to ensure that we don’t over regulate the technology either, so that we don’t lose to China.” The Trump administration is committed to maintaining U.S. dominance in AI, a White House official said. “That is why President Trump signed during his first week in office an EO to develop an AI action plan and reverse the disastrous Biden-era EO that would have stifled American leadership in AI,” the official told The Daily Signal. Marsha Blackburn’s Trump America AI Act  But there’s one way to unite the branches of the Trump coalitions, according to Estes, and it’s already been introduced in the U.S. Senate.  Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said Trump asked her to introduce her “Trump America AI Act,” which would create one federal rulebook for AI, including protections for “children, creators, conservatives, and communities.” Estes thinks the entire coalition, apart from Big Tech donors, could rally behind Blackburn’s bill.  Blackburn told The Daily Signal that Big Tech contacts her to push back on her AI framework “every single day.”  “I have met with many of them, but I think it’s important to understand every industrial sector has regulation, whether it is logistics or manufacturing or communications, every sector has regulation,” she said in a phone interview. “The only people that do not have this are people that are working in the virtual space. So it is imperative that we establish the guardrails.”  Blackburn said the pro-Big Tech coalition is “generally not that interested in moving forward with any type of regulation.”  But “people that are concerned about kids and our creative and innovative industries,” and “people that are patent holders and trademark copyright holders” want regulations that will ensure they will be able to continue working without getting replaced by AI, she said. “There are tremendous benefits from AI,” Blackburn said. “We see it in logistics, we see it in healthcare, we see it in advanced manufacturing. We see it in education. There are concerns, and addressing the concerns at the same time we establish the guardrails is our intent.”  The post Inside the ‘Most Controversial Issue’ in Trump Administration: AI Policy appeared first on The Daily Signal.