Haima Moore

And so there's so much uncertainty.

While the government cannot be the one driving the bus, they can be the facilitator and the convener.

And so President Trump, who has said that he has a grand vision for this economy, I think he's got to use that vision and parse it out a bit around AI, particularly because of the workforce implications.

No, no, I was going to say, and Beverly, I completely agree with everything you said.

I think, Mark, I think there are some burgeoning groups that are starting to take this opposition approach.

I think some of it is more around data centers and energy that happens to be sort of couched in the AI conversation.

So there are individuals who are spending money.

But look, you're talking about the biggest companies in the entire world who have more money than God.

In the history of the world.

And so you can't expect that these guys are going to play a little bit more fairly when they have so much money to give.

And they're very clear about where they want to go with this.

They want the least amount of regulation as possible, both on the federal level and the state level.

And the reason why they're spending so much money right now, particularly in the midterms, is to prepare for if the Democrats take the House back, there's going to be a lot of conversations about regulation, and then it's going to go back to the states.

And so they're spending money in the state legislatures.

If you look, Mark, and look at the election cycle this particular year, they're spending more money in state elections than they are in the congressional elections because they're preparing for what's going to happen next year.

That's one.

But the thing that I've always said, and you know, full disclosure, I work with a lot of these companies in my professional life.

What I've always said and think

And one of the things that they are really trying to hone in on is American innovation and the race against China.

And if they can crouch that in real American innovation while keeping the workforce moving forward, helping to upskill and retool.