Michael Steinberger
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
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So I think –
the calculus internally is like, okay, we can ride this out.
And yeah, we're going to take some stick from Democrats on Capitol Hill and we're not popular, but are they going to really go through the trouble of pulling us out of all the sockets, if you will?
And I
Are they really going to sit here and say, oh, this is the best product on the market, but because we don't like carp, we're not going to use it.
So you're going to have to use a lesser product.
Is that what they want to tell voters?
Is that what they want to tell people on Capitol Hill?
And so the answer is no.
And look, I mean, there was concern after the first Trump presidency that they would face blowback, that the Biden administration would
somehow punish them.
And that really didn't happen.
They have some reason to believe, I think, that they can ride this out and that for all the outcry, for all the opprobrium heaped at them, that it won't really materially impact their government business in the long run.
It's a combination of both.
And I mean, this, I mean, what Karp clearly recognized, and then certainly one reason he became such a Trump enthusiast this time around, is he recognized that this was an opportunity to even more deeply entrench the technology in governments.
And that's what's happening.
I mean, it's all across the executive branch, the federal landscape right now.
So it was already in extensive use across many government agencies, across the military, but now it's even more so.
So yeah, they are in a sense creating facts on the ground.
And so it's a combination of
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