AI has a Democrat problem

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🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Top executives from artificial intelligence giants are making regular visits to Capitol Hill. Yet their message seems to have landed on deaf ears with top Democrats. Jake breaks it all down ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s visit today. Plus, Punchbowl News Defense Reporter Anthony Adragna discusses the latest FISA drama surrounding President Donald Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence. Watch this episode on YouTube here! Punchbowl News is on YouTube⁠. ⁠⁠⁠Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our channel today to see all the new ways⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠we’re investing in video.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at ⁠⁠punchbowl.news.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Presented by Google.
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0:29.0	at G.com'm Jake Sherman.
0:44.0	And welcome to the Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News.
0:47.8	It is Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026.
0:51.1	Let's get into the mix here are your Washington headlines of the day.
0:53.9	Number one, AI has a Democrat problem. Number two, Dems threaten FISA over the Pulte job. And number three, primary takeaways. Let's get into it. Anna is traveling. So we have Anthony on the podcast this morning. Welcome, Anthony. It's going to be here. You are not, Anna, but we are happy to have you, very happy to have you. And let's talk about the top this morning. AI. This is a top by myself, Ben and Diego. And we are making the point as Sam Altman comes to Capitol Hill that AI has a big problem with Democrats. Think of this.
1:28.0	In the last couple of days, the following things happened.
1:31.7	Bernie Sanders says he's going to introduce a bill to give taxpayers a 50% stake in the nation's largest AI companies.
1:37.9	Greg Kassar, the chair of the Progressive Caucus, called for an AI tax.
1:41.7	Rashida Taleb said it was disgusting that Gretchen Whitmer approved
1:45.3	the expansion of data centers in Michigan. Carl Heasty, the New York State House Speaker,
1:50.8	said the legislature would have acted one-year moratorium on data center construction. That is
1:55.3	only the beginning. Anthony, the politics of AI right now and the Democratic Party are just incredibly rough.
2:02.7	This is a nascent technology, although technology companies believe that they are changing the
2:08.5	world. Democrats don't exactly see it that way. This is not only an issue about skepticism,
2:13.0	about the technology. This is an issue about, I would say, raw fears, that jobs are going to be lost,
2:19.2	that people's lives are going to be displaced, that the social contract that people have
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