Trump’s partisan AI pitch stalls on the Hill

The resistance on Capitol Hill raises fresh doubts about whether Congress can pass any national laws for the rapidly advancing technology as states move ahead on their own. New Jersey’s Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a pro-business Democrat and co-chair of the new House Democratic Commission on AI, immediately criticized the White House plan as a “half-measure” that “lacks key consumer protections.” And in an interview with POLITICO, he blamed the Trump administration and House Republican leaders for rejecting earlier efforts to bring the parties together on AI — including a bipartisan task force that GOP leaders declined to renew this Congress….