First
@tedlieu. Now
@RepGraceMeng.
Both Taiwanese American Democrats.
The racial cover isn't even subtle.
Rep. Grace Meng calls the
@nvidia chip sales a "five alarm fire" and demands full transparency.
Fine. Let's start with her.
Let voters see how the Washington machine really works.
The checks:
Three
@AnthropicAI employees gave her $17,000 this cycle. The PAC of Americans for Responsible Innovation (
@americans4ri) added $2,000.
The same donors:
Those same three Anthropic employees also funded ARI's PAC—$85,000 in total.
One gave Meng $3,000,
then nearly $1M to Public First,
an AI super PAC network.
The same operative:
ARI and Public First share a founder:
former Democratic congressman Brad Carson (
@bradrcarson).
Anthropic gave Public First Action $20M,
and Dario Amodei (
@DarioAmodei) added $1M of his own.
The same agenda:
Two days after the midterms, ARI led 52 groups urging Democrats to hand out committee chairs based on AI safety positions.
The seat and power:
With Democrats taking the House,
ARI is pushing hard for Grace Meng to chair the Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) Appropriations subcommittee—
the panel that funds the Department of Commerce (
@CommerceGov).
Commerce runs AI chip export controls and
@NIST's AI safety work:
Anthropic's top two priorities in Washington.
Now she's going after NVIDIA—Anthropic's fiercest rival on export controls—and Commerce, the very agency she'll fund.
Same donors.
Same operative.
Same agenda.
Same subcommittee.
No law needs to be broken.
Interests find power. Power finds interests.
That's the five-alarm fire. The real one.
Congresswoman, you asked for full transparency.
Here it is.