{"id":38357,"date":"2025-11-20T11:32:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=38357"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:32:05","slug":"donald-trumps-support-for-pro-ai-proposal-fuels-maga-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=38357","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s support for pro-AI proposal fuels Maga backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=e087e732-5f71-4db3-b613-830f3cee313d&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>A plan backed by Donald Trump to restrict US states from regulating AI companies has provoked a backlash from prominent Republicans and Maga supporters, and accusations that he has caved to Big Tech donors. <\/p>\n<p>The US president on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115572931492563128\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\">called for<\/a> \u201cone Federal Standard instead of a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes\u201d to support the sector\u2019s growth, despite vehement opposition from some Republican senators and governors.<\/p>\n<p>The White House is even considering an executive order that would potentially withhold federal funds from states who attempt to pass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/artificial-intelligence\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\">AI<\/a> laws, according to a person familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s backing of a federal framework \u2014 a priority for Silicon Valley lobbyists who fear restrictions on AI from some states \u2014 came two weeks after a group backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and an OpenAI co-founder was formed in Washington in part to fight state-led legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Build American AI\u2019s leader Nathan Leamer visited the White House just hours before Trump announced his decision to back the move that had already ignited outrage among some Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShows what money can do,\u201d US Senator Josh Hawley, who helped derail an effort to restrict state-led AI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/technology-regulation\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\">regulation<\/a> earlier this year, wrote of the similar proposal\u2019s revival earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The criticism from within Trump\u2019s own party comes amid disquiet in the Maga movement about his handling of an affordability crisis in the US and over his relationship to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. <\/p>\n<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said the plan supported by Trump was \u201can insult to voters\u201d. The proposal would \u201cprevent states from protecting against online censorship of political speech, predatory applications that target children, violations of intellectual property rights and data centre intrusions on power\/water resources\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>An attempt to stop states from making their own AI rules for a decade failed in the summer after a revolt from Republicans in Congress, Trump allies such as Steve Bannon and child safety campaigners. The measure to restrict the state was defeated by 99 votes to one in the Senate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anxiety over AI tools has sharpened in recent months amid reports of users dying by suicide following interactions with chatbots and the proliferation of AI-generated pornography. The industry\u2019s own leaders have warned that the technology will herald widespread job losses, while some analysts fret that a boom in AI investment is creating a bubble in financial markets.<\/p>\n<p>But pressure from Big Tech bosses, Trump\u2019s AI tsar David Sacks and a $100mn fund to help promote pro-AI congressional candidates has helped revive a similar proposal to restrict state AI laws, winning the president\u2019s support.<\/p>\n<p>A tech official with knowledge of negotiations on Capitol Hill said they were confident the new proposals would meet less resistance, as they could include child safety rules and safeguards around mental health.<\/p>\n<p>But senior Republicans have remained critical. <\/p>\n<p>Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who served as Trump\u2019s White House press secretary in his first term, came out strongly against the move. \u201cNow isn\u2019t the time to backtrack,\u201d she wrote. \u201cDrop the pre-emption plan now and protect our kids and communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conservative lawyer Mike Davis, who led the backlash against the moratorium in the summer, claimed the industry wanted a \u201clicence to steal and profit from copyright owners across America\u201d. He said the move would \u201charm conservatives, children, communities and creators\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Build American AI\u2019s Leamer told the Financial Times that while \u201cthere are real consternations from a number of different constituencies\u201d, the measure could now get through with support from Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s based on the [coalitional] way we did crypto\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009it\u2019s truly about having a balanced policy,\u201d Leamer added. \u201cYou need the accelerationists and the people who are concerned about protecting consumers to work together, to make sure they are putting this framework together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some Republicans in Congress have warned that Trump\u2019s embrace of lighter-touch AI regulation could hurt them electorally, according to a person close to the party leadership, amid concerns about job losses, high energy prices or child safety due to AI.<\/p>\n<p>A survey carried out by YouGov in June for the Institute for Family Studies, which campaigns for tighter AI regulations, found that just 18 per cent of voters supported the effort to stop states regulating the tech. <\/p>\n<aside aria-labelledby=\"aside-label\" class=\"n-content-recommended--single-story n-content-recommended--inset\" data-component=\"recommended\">\n<p class=\"n-content-recommended__title o3-type-body-highlight\">Recommended<\/p>\n<div class=\"o-teaser o-teaser--article o-teaser--small o-teaser--stacked o-teaser--has-image o-teaser--opinion js-teaser\" data-id=\"6fefe4eb-dc54-4ea9-9ab9-20671c3670cf\">\n<div class=\"o-teaser__image-container js-teaser-image-container\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/6fefe4eb-dc54-4ea9-9ab9-20671c3670cf\" data-trackable=\"image-link\" data-trackable-context-story-link=\"image-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-teaser__image-placeholder\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2290\/1288\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Research by Pew in September found that about half of Americans feared AI would be detrimental to forming relationships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to understand how, in any conceivable way, this is beneficial for the Republican party,\u201d Michael Toscano of the Institute for Family Studies said of the pre-emption proposals backed by Trump. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can just imagine the presidential debate in 2028. Your party shoved through an AI pre-emption when voters were overwhelmingly opposed to it. Now, this boy has committed suicide. Now, these workers are out of work. Now the voices of these religious communities are being drowned out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/e087e732-5f71-4db3-b613-830f3cee313d\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}