After two years of a GOP-controlled House and Senate, Democratic lawmakers are expected to bring the heat on tech firms, both through investigations into the companies’ relationship with the Trump administration and proposed AI safety regulations.
In the face of a Republican-led Washington, multiple AI and defense tech firms lined up to reconcile with the Trump administration at the start of Trump’s second term.
Two years later, political strategists predict these efforts, and a lack of AI safety regulations, could come back to haunt the tech industry in a Democrat-led Congress.
The tech industry has “done nothing to prevent themselves from being the villain of the 2028 storyline,” Silicon Valley-based Democratic strategist Cooper Teboe told The Hill. “I suspect they have a significant number of investigations coming their way on the official side and on the political side.”
While business executives cozying up to incoming presidents of both parties is nothing new, the shift of the typical left-leaning Silicon Valley seems to be making a lasting impression on Americans’ perception of these companies.
In a recent Politico poll, Americans were more likely to assume the executives heading up the largest tech firms are Republican, including ones like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who clashed with the Trump administration on AI safety earlier this year.
Read more in a full report at TheHill.com tomorrow morning.
