Marjorie Taylor Greene is an American politician who represented Georgia in the US House of Representatives as a Republican until her resignation took effect on January 5, 2026 (Source: pbs.org). A prominent populist-conservative voice, she is one of the figures named in reporting on the coalition that defeated federal preemption of state AI regulation in 2025. She later criticized the Trump administration's AI infrastructure and preemption policies on state-rights, labor and environmental grounds.
Opposition to the 2025 state-law moratorium
Nicky Woolf's Transformer reporting names Greene among the opponents of the ten-year moratorium on state AI regulation that was inserted into the 2025 "One Big Beautiful Bill" reconciliation package. It describes that opposition as spanning left-wing Democrats such as Senators Ed Markey and Bernie Sanders, union leaders, ultra-religious conservatives, and far-right populists including Steve Bannon and Greene. According to the article, Greene told reporters she had not been aware of the moratorium when she voted to pass the bill in the House, and posted on X: "I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there." Her admission gave opponents a procedural argument alongside the substantive one. The Senate removed the moratorium by a 99–1 vote (How MAGA learned to love AI safety — Nicky Woolf (Transformer, October 2025)).
The reporting places her on the populist side of a fissure running through the Trump coalition. On one side are technofuturist-libertarians represented by Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel, with allies such as Senator Ted Cruz. On the other are nationalist populists including Bannon, Greene and Tucker Carlson. Woolf treats AI as one of several issues widening that division, alongside the Iran strikes, the Epstein files and H-1B visas. Commentator Joe Allen told Transformer that politicians such as Blumenthal, Blackburn and Greene "are clearly pointing out the dangers and the present damages being inflicted" by technology companies, counter-signaling Trump's embrace of the industry (How MAGA learned to love AI safety — Nicky Woolf (Transformer, October 2025)). See AI Industry Discourse Analysis for the coalition-formation frame, and State-Level AI Regulation for what the moratorium would have preempted.
Criticism of the AI Action Plan and data centers
On July 24, 2025, the day after President Trump released America's AI Action Plan and signed three AI executive orders, Greene posted a lengthy objection on X. She wrote that she remained "committed to protecting state rights, human jobs, human lives, human rights, our environment and critical water supply", and that her "deep concerns are that the EO demands rapid AI expansion with little to no guardrails and breaks". Citing her background in construction, she warned that "rushed AI expansion and data centers being built all over the country... with no plan in regards to environmental and critical water supply impact has massive future implications". She added: "Competing with China does not mean become like China by threatening state rights, replacing human jobs on mass scale creating mass poverty, and creating potentially devastating effects on our environment and critical water supply." The Hill noted that the Action Plan calls for exempting "data center-related actions" from environmental review and for limiting federal funding to states whose AI rules are deemed too onerous (Source: thehill.com; politico.com). See AI Data Centers.
Opposition to renewed federal preemption
When the administration and congressional allies revived preemption in late 2025, Greene again objected. In November 2025 she wrote on X: "There should not be a moratorium on states rights for AI. States must retain the right to regulate and make laws on AI and anything else for the benefit of their state. Federalism must be preserved." (Source: cbsaustin.com). Trump signed Executive Order 14365, asserting federal preemption of state AI laws, on December 11, 2025.
Resignation from Congress
Greene announced on November 21, 2025, in a video of more than 10 minutes, that she would resign from Congress, with her last day on January 5, 2026. The announcement followed a public falling-out with Trump over the Epstein files, foreign policy and health care. Trump had called her a "traitor" and said he would endorse a primary challenger, and Greene said she did not want her district "to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for" (Source: pbs.org).
Relationships
- related: How MAGA learned to love AI safety — Nicky Woolf (Transformer, October 2025) — the canonical citation for her moratorium position
- related: Steve Bannon, Sen. Josh Hawley, Angela Paxton, Marsha Blackburn — populist and state-rights opponents of preemption
- related: State-Level AI Regulation, AI Industry Discourse Analysis, AI Data Centers
- related: America's AI Action Plan, Executive Order 14365 — federal instruments she criticized