Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) admitted on Tuesday that she hadn’t actually read crucial parts of Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” before voting to pass it last month.
In a statement on X, Greene said she was not aware that there was a provision in the bill that strips states of their right to regulate AI.
“Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the [One Big Beautiful Bill] that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years,” she wrote. “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.”
“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 [One Big Beautiful Bill] comes back to the House for approval after Senate changes, I will not vote for it with this in it.”
Last month, Greene clashed with Elon Musk’s AI bot on X after it questioned her Christian faith.
“The judgement seat belongs to GOD, not you a non-human AI platform,” Greene wrote in a post at the time. “Grok is left leaning and continues to spread fake news and propaganda. When people give up their own discernment, stop seeking the truth, and depend on AI to analyze information, they will be lost.”
Greene’s post on Tuesday comes as voters across the country confront Republican lawmakers over the bill which narrowly passed on a 215-214, vote in the House. Two Republicans — Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Warren Davidson of Ohio — joined all Democrats present in opposition.
At a town hall in Nebraska, Rep. Mike Flood admitted that he had no idea there is a provision in the budget bill that restricts federal courts from enforcing contempt citations if the Trump administration violates court injunctions or temporary restraining orders.
Republicans are also facing pushback over more widely known provisions in the bill such as cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and SNAP.
At a town hall in Iowa last Friday, Sen. Joni Ernst (R) dismissed concerns about Medicaid cuts, telling her constituents “well, we all are going to die.”
