{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.slotkin.senate.gov/2026/09/29/slotkin-warren-demand-full-accounting-of-trumps-huge-tax-breaks-for-ai-and-tech-companies/", "Slotkin, Warren Demand Full Accounting of Trump\u2019s Huge Tax Breaks for AI and Tech Companies", "2026-09-29", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "MI", "Elissa Slotkin", "S001208", "www.slotkin.senate.gov", "slotkin", "https://www.slotkin.senate.gov/newsroom/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) joined Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in sending letters to the CEOs of Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft demanding answers and full transparency on the tax breaks they have received from President Trump, tax breaks they received because of their investments in AI and data center spending.\n\n\u201cAmericans across the country are worried about the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on their lives \u2014 from increased utility bills to threats of job losses and cyberattacks,\u201d wrote the senators. \u201cRather than regulate AI to protect American families or address the nation\u2019s affordability crisis, the Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress have prioritized handing out colossal tax breaks to giant corporations.\u201d\n\nSenators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Tina Smith (D-MN) also signed the letters.\n\nUnder the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), passed by Trump and congressional Republicans last year, major tech companies can now write off billions of dollars in AI development costs, massively lowering what they owe in taxes. Newly released figures show these tax breaks are a key factor behind the 25% decline in corporate tax revenue this year, even as Big Tech\u2019s own revenues and profits continue to skyrocket.\n\n\u201cThis enormous tax cut appears to have been driven in significant part by President Trump and Republicans\u2019 tax breaks subsidizing your spending on AI,\u201d continued the senators.\n\nThese same tech giants have also poured money into influencing Republicans and the Trump administration. Each of the four companies gave $1 million to the President\u2019s inauguration, and they spent millions more lobbying Congress and federal agencies in the run-up to OBBBA\u2019s passage. The senators demanded these massive companies provide transparency on the tax breaks they received and disclose any lobbying they had done to receive them by October 11, 2026.\n\n\u201cThese tax breaks are not free\u2014their cost has been imposed on American families via cuts to critical social services and a higher deficit,\u201d wrote the senators.\n\nFull text of the letter to Amazon here.\n\nFull text of the letter to Meta here.\n\nFull text of the letter to Alphabet here.\n\nFull text of the letter to Microsoft here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-30T10:57:52Z", "2026-09-30T10:59:04Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.slotkin.senate.gov/2026/09/29/slotkin-warren-demand-full-accounting-of-trumps-huge-tax-breaks-for-ai-and-tech-companies/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1676996946334839, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}