At 8AM last Monday, as he prepared for a third marathon day of covering the Senate's chaotic legislative battle over the Big Beautiful Bill, Steve Bannon's phone rang. It was Mike Davis, the head of the Article III Project and a lawyer for Donald Trump, with an urgent request: he needed to take over the first hour of War Room to raise hell about a ban on states' AI laws buried in the Big Beautiful Bill. "We have to go in hard on this thing," he said.
That was a huge ask, Bannon told The Verge. He wasn't a fan of the AI moratorium, or Big Tech in general, but War Room was built to push its fan base into pressuring Republicans to vote the MAG …
