Oren Cass

And when we have the federal rule, that is going to override what states can do.

The problem is they're not doing that.

They're just saying, we are going to overrule states doing anything, even though we have nothing else.

Either we don't want any regulation at all, or we just haven't put the time and work into deciding what it should be.

And so the result is it's just going to be sort of open season.

And so, you know, I think, like you said, there are some folks in the Senate doing really good work on this.

Senator Hawley has a very good bill that would actually protect kids.

And I think the federal government doing that, that would be fine.

And when it does, that should override what the states do.

But now we've got – it's not even legislation at this point.

Like you said, the legislation went down 99 to 1, and now we've got folks in the White House just saying, well, then we'll just do an executive order.

And it's – you know, the version that has come out is it's so poorly done.

And it just – you know, frankly, it would give an enormous amount of authority to one man, David Sachs, who is –

is not even a full-time government official, he's still part of the tech industry, to tell everybody you have to let these companies do whatever they want.

And that is just not how our government should function.

Let's have a debate, let's decide what the rules should be, but let's not just override it and ignore what people want, ignore what Congress has said.

You know, at American Compass, we're watching what we sort of see.

It feels kind of like a split screen.

I mean, there are some things that have been really good that have really put things on the right course.

You know, like you said, immigration enforcement, securing the border, making sure jobs are available to American workers, making sure that companies are offering good jobs.