Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said she “did not know” about an artificial intelligence provision in the “big, beautiful bill,” or else she would not have voted for it.
The budget bill passed last month by one vote, with Greene among the House Republicans voting in favor. She said the AI provision “strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years.”
“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 said in a post on X.
“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.”
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.
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… pic.twitter.com/bip3hztSGq
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
(@RepMTG) June 3, 2025
Greene drew immediate criticism from her Democratic colleagues for not reading the bill in full.
“You have one job. To. Read. The. F***ing. Bill,” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said.
Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Mark Pocan (D-WI) piled on, with Pocan saying, “Read the f***ing bill instead of clapping for it like a performing monkey. You should have done your job while it was written. You didn’t. You own that vote.”
Lieu said, “That’s one reason I voted no on the GOP’s big, ugly bill,” adding, “PRO TIP: It’s helpful to read stuff before voting on it.”
Greene later said she didn’t like the budget bill’s price tag but wanted to pass it as a “critical step toward delivering the America First MAGA mandate voters gave us in November.”
Former Trump adviser Elon Musk also expressed similar concerns about the high cost of the budget bill on Tuesday.
ELON MUSK TURNS CONGRESS UPSIDE DOWN AFTER TORCHING TRUMP’S ‘BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL’
“This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,” he said.
Musk added later on Tuesday, “Mammoth spending bills are bankrupting America! ENOUGH.”
