"I Did Not Know About This": Even Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Expressing Regret For Voting For The "Big, Beautiful" Bill
Well, one of the people who is no longer a fan of the "One Big, Beautiful Bill" is none other than someone who voted for it: Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The tax bill passed through Congress last month with a 215 to 214 vote (two Republicans voted no; Kentucky's Thomas Massie and Ohio's Warren Davidson). Within its 1,000+ pages, the bill offers greater benefits to the richest Americans, big cuts on Medicaid and SNAP, and a potentially troubling limitation on courts' abilities to enforce contempt. It's estimated to add $3.8 trillion to the federal deficit.
As the bill awaits its future in the Senate, Marjorie took to X to criticize it. "Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years," she wrote.
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"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," she continued. "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. This needs to be stripped out in the Senate."
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"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," she concluded.
Indeed, part of the bill plainly reads, "No State or political subdivision thereof may enforce, during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, any law or regulation of that State or a political subdivision thereof limiting, restricting, or otherwise regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems entered into interstate commerce."
Democrat Representative Eric Swalwell, among others, subsequently concluded that MTG likely hadn't actually read the bill itself.
Marjorie joins the company of Republican Representative Mike Flood, who got yelled at during a town hall when he was asked about the provision surrounding contempt orders. He replied, 'I do not agree with that section that was added to the bill...I am not going to hide the truth, this provision was unknown to me when I voted for that."
I mean, when even Elon Musk and Marjorie Taylor Greene are criticizing your bill...so glad these people get to make decisions over healthcare!!!
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