Overview

• On July 24, Greene denounced Trump’s AI executive order on X as an “absolute threat to federalism” for curbing states’ authority to regulate the technology.
• She criticized the order’s demand for rapid AI expansion with minimal guardrails and its provision to withhold federal funding from states that impose their own AI regulations.
• Greene warned that unchecked data-center growth driven by the order will drain water reserves in drought-prone regions and trigger legal disputes over scarce resources.
• Her rare public dissent against Trump on this policy highlights a widening GOP split over federal oversight of emerging technologies.
• This break follows her recent rebukes of the president on Epstein files and Middle East military actions, illustrating broader intra-party tensions.