Ted Cruz gives up on AI law moratorium, joins 99-1 vote against his own plan

Ted Cruz’s Dumb Plan To Punish States That Regulate AI By Withholding Broadband Grants Falls Apart

While the GOP budget bill continues to include no limit of corrupt garbage that will kill millions of Americans (the cuts to Medicaid and rural hospitals being particularly brutal), one key component of the GOP agenda didn’t quite make the cut. Ted Cruz had proposed withholding billions of dollars in federal broadband grants for states that attempt any oversight of AI. The proposal was one of several cut to try and get the hugely unpopular GOP b…

Ted Cruz gives up on AI law moratorium, joins 99-1 vote against his own plan

The one vote backing moratorium on state AI laws came from Thom Tillis, not Cruz.

Ted Cruz plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote - WorldNL Magazine

Cruz blamed “outside interests” After the compromise fell apart, the Senate voted 99-1 for Blackburn's amendment to remove the AI provision from the budget bill. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) cast the only vote against the amendment. "Cruz ultimately got behind Blackburn's amendment early Tuesday, acknowledging that 'many of my colleagues would prefer not to vote on this matter,'" according to The Hill. Cruz said the five-year moratorium had support…