Marjorie Taylor Greene sours on Trump tax bill over ‘Skynet’ worries
ATLANTA, Ga. - After initially ing President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill of tax breaks and spending cuts, Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Thursday she will vote against it if the bill comes back before the House of Representatives.
Apparently referring to the fictional “Skynet” as portrayed in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s hugely successful “Terminator” films, Greene said, “I’m not voting for the development of Skynet and the rise of the machines by destroying federalism for 10 years by taking away state rights to regulate and make laws on all AI.
“Forcing eminent domain on people’s private properties to link the future Skynet is not very Republican,” said Greene, who represents Georgia’s solidly Republican 14th congressional district, on social media. “AI is going to replace a vast array of human jobs, everything from media to manufacturing to even construction through AI computer systems and robotics.
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Greene added: “That means in my manufacturing district, that currently has a 2.8% unemployment rate, AI will replace many human jobs. And my district with the one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country could go to one of the highest unemployed districts in the country.”
Greene also said she did not know about the bill’s section she said “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,” Greene said, again on social media. “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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Trump’s bill cleared the House late last month by a single vote. Trump ally Elon Musk lambasted the package and those voting for it.
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“This massive, outrageous, pork-filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,” Musk posted on his site X. “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”
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