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AI
Senator Cruz Leads on AI
By James Erwin Yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz moved to reify President Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan with legislation. At a Commerce Committee hearing with White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michale Kratsios, Senator Cruz introduced a five-pillar framework for a comprehensive AI package, along with…
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The Senate misses its moment on AI, but the fight is far from over
By James Erwin The U.S. is currently winning the artificial intelligence race with China, just barely. President Trump has articulated a vision for American dominance of AI, but the Senate has already undermined this goal by stripping a much-needed moratorium on state AI regulation from One Big, Beautiful Bill. To realize…
Bad Proposals
BEAD funds should not subsidize ISPs forever
By James Erwin A bipartisan group of 14 senators is lobbying NTIA to let states keep the $20 billion in BEAD savings Administrator Arielle Roth has been able to find in the program. As we have argued before, this money should return to the taxpayer, and it certainly should not…
AI
The AI moratorium is showing signs of life.
By James Erwin Reports of a federal moratorium preempting ill-considered state AI laws were greatly exaggerated. Yesterday the idea rose like a Phoenix from the ashes. What changed? Presidential leadership. President Trump endorsed a federal moratorium on AI regulation this past summer, shortly after a proposal by Senator Ted Cruz…
AI
Digital Liberty Op-Ed in RealClearMarkets: “Why the GAIN Act Is a Net Loss for U.S. Technology”
By Rohan Naval On November 11, 2025, RealClearMarkets published an op-ed by Digital Liberty’s Executive Director James Erwin. The op-ed explains how the GAIN AI Act, currently under consideration by the House of Representatives, will hurt American competitiveness in chip manufacturing. The bill gives American consumers the “right of…
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BEAD savings should go back to taxpayers
By James Erwin The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program, a provision of the Biden infrastructure bill, provided $42.5 billion in taxpayer funding for broadband expansion. The Commerce Department has announced significant savings of nearly half the program’s budget, $20 billion, due to reforms – money that should…
Spectrum
Some Republican Senators want to renege on their reconciliation spectrum deal
By James Erwin The Big Beautiful Bill’s spectrum provisions were a historic victory for free market telecommunications policy. A record 800 MHz of spectrum was mandated for auction, the largest pipeline ever. But it could all be for naught if a provision of the Senate-passed National Defense Authorization Act…
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The CCP is Targeting American Cellular Infrastructure
By Rohan Naval In recent weeks, federal law enforcement has dismantled a clandestine “SIM farm” operation in the New York City area. This included a distributed setup of SIM-bank servers, handsets, and hundreds of thousands of physical SIMs located within roughly 35 miles of the U.N. General Assembly. Officials…
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Restoring Free Speech to the Airwaves and Internet
By James Erwin and Rohan Naval Senator Ted Cruz, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee announced an October 8th hearing on the issue of “jawboning” and free speech. The Commerce Committee released a report on jawboning in conjunction with the hearing, and Sen. Cruz plans to introduce…
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Digital Liberty Op-Ed in RealClearMarkets: “A Renegade FTC Undermines the Trump Agenda”
By Rohan Naval On October 6, 2025, RealClear Markets published an op-ed by Digital Liberty’s Executive Director, James Erwin. The piece describes the recent trend of a fringe group of Trump appointees continuing Biden’s expanded antitrust enforcement, which poses immense risks to the booming AI and energy sector.
