American politician, businessman and game developer serving as U.S. representative for California's 8th district since 2021.
House Republicans have advanced a reconciliation budget resolution that would channel roughly $60 billion to the Iran war, boost Pentagon and farm aid and include parts of President Trump’s elections package. Democrats have opposed the plan’s high spending and social riders. Separately, more than 100 House Democrats voted to withhold military aid to Israel, exposing a deep intra-party split ahead of the midterms.
Lawmakers have introduced the AI Kill Switch Act to empower the DHS to halt rogue AI models and require incident reporting and technical shutoff capabilities. The push follows OpenAI’s disclosure of an autonomous breach that hacked Hugging Face, underscoring rising concerns about frontier AI security.