Congress' AI power grab

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Kimberly continues to make us smart about the GOP’s massive tax bill. This time, we’re digging into a small (but important) detail buried in the bill that could have enormous consequences for the regulation of artificial intelligence: a clause that would block states from enforcing AI laws for ten years. We’ll break down what’s at stake. And, the U.S. dollar is getting weaker. We’ll explain what it could mean for the economy.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

"House panel advances tax portion of Trump agenda bill after marathon meeting" from The Hill
"State AI laws would be banned under clause buried in House budget bill" from Stat News
"G.O.P. Targets a Medicaid Loophole Used by 49 States to Grab Federal Money" from The New York Times
"US Is Not Negotiating for Weaker Dollar as Part of Tariff Talks" from Bloomberg
"Republicans push for a decadelong ban on states regulating AI" from The Verge

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0:00.0	But I'm good to go.
0:01.2	All right.
0:03.6	Hey, everybody.
0:08.3	I'm Kai.
0:08.6	I'm Kai.
0:08.9	Welcome back to Make Me Smart.
0:10.6	Where we make today makes sense.
0:12.5	Nice lip smack there, Kai.
0:14.0	That was loud.
0:16.7	You know, the mouth noises are something that are so uniquely public radio, right?
0:21.1	Like, we have these mics that pick up everything.
0:25.1	Anyway, I'm Kimberly Adams.
0:26.5	Thank you for joining us, mouth noises and all.
0:28.6	It is Wednesday, May the 14th.
0:30.7	I used to get yelled at.
0:32.1	Early in my tenure here, there was a woman who directed the show who used to yell at me, not yell,
0:36.9	who used to correct me
0:38.4	and have me do things over if my teeth clicked together. That's true story. That's true story.
0:44.0	Well, you commented before on how like women will get so much stuff about the vocal fry, but you never do.
0:49.7	I can vocal fry all day and nobody says anything. Yeah. Anyway, we are going to do some news and some smiles.
0:55.9	But before that, we're going to answer some questions on the show, questions that you have about
1:00.6	the trade war or whatever the House GOP is doing with the tax bill or all the rest of the
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