Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Monday said she opposes Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) provision in the Big Beautiful Bill that would set a ten-year moratorium on state-based artificial intelligence regulations.

Early Monday morning reports found that Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz and Blackburn struck a deal on a Big Beautiful Bill provision that would provide states $500 million in additional funding for the Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program as long as states do not regulate artificial intelligence.

Blackburn and Cruz struck a deal Monday that would have carveouts in the provision to “protect kids, creators, and…

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