James Talarico

Yes, sir, Mr. President.

Mr. President, the first executive order that we've prepared for your signature today relates to federal permitting for data center infrastructure.

As you mentioned during your speech, this is a crucial issue affecting the entire AI industry.

What this executive order will do is establish fast-track permitting and ensure that the federal government is working to get data centers approved and through the permitting pipeline as quickly as possible.

As you said before, sir, it's absolutely essential that American AI models and the American AI industry dominates the future of this industry around the world.

What this next executive order will do is promote, through various instrumentalities of the federal government, the export abroad of American AI models to ensure American AI dominance in the future.

And lastly, sir, as you said in your speech, we don't want woke AI.

We want AI models based on accurate information that give accurate information and accurate answers.

This executive order will ensure that when the federal government procures or promotes different AI models, that those AI models are ideologically neutral, that they don't embrace wokeism and critical race theory and all of these terrible theories that have done so much damage to our country.

Yeah.

Well, I'm just honored to be here.

Yeah.

You know, I've gotten that a lot.

People who are like, you're in seminary, you're studying to become a minister.

Why wouldn't you want the Ten Commandments in every classroom?

So I recognize that it's kind of a weird position to be in.

But I grew up in a tradition that cherished the separation of church and state, not just because it protects the church or protects democracy, but it is what allows this democracy to happen where we can all have different faith traditions and live together in peace.

And so any attempt to erode that boundary, I feel like I have a special obligation to speak out against it.

And so I told my colleagues that I thought the bill was unconstitutional, the bill was un-American.

But I went one step further and I said I thought the bill was unchristian, which again probably sounds weird to people.