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September 14, 2026 / 10:56 AM EDT
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The House is slated to recess at the end of this week through early November, but a group of House Democrats is calling on Speaker Mike Johnson to delay that recess until lawmakers pass AI safeguards. "Reasonable minds may disagree about precisely how Congress should regulate this rapidly evolving technology. We cannot disagree about the imperative for Congress to act," the Democratic lawmakers said in a statement. Johnson argues Congress needs more time to get the policy right, and that AI companies bear responsibility. "If Congress just races in and does some sort of emergency session to try to regulate AI, we will lose the race to China, and that is a threat to every single American" Johnson told CNN's State of the Union on Sunday.President Trump appeared to share that assessment, dismissing the concerns of AI executives. "We're leading China in AI. We're the most sophisticated country in the world. And frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins," Mr. Trump told reporters at his golf course in Ireland over the weekend. "We can put guardrails, we can do this and that. But I think you have a lot of negative voices that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up."Mr. Trump on Sunday night said that he's not "downplaying" the risks of AI, but "it's going to be more good than bad."
