… this creates a fascinating contradiction: Republican state legislators are pushing for more control over tech companies, while Republican federal legislators are accidentally making that control impossible. It’s almost as if they don’t actually have a coherent technology policy beyond “do whatever seems politically expedient at the moment.”

Emphasis mine. The author is so close to getting it.

Again, likely to be one of those half-baked plans to remove regulation for their benefactors but they lack both the intelligence and understanding of the subject matter to realise what the full implications are.

This is the first thing I thought when I heard about this line item they want to sneak in. Didnt the first lady just advocate some legislation for regulation on AI not one month ago?