Monument’s Joseph Hoefer spoke with Bloomberg Government about how lobbying on artificial intelligence was already surging — the White House’s new pitch to Congress will only add more intensity on K Street.
Joseph Hoefer, chief AI officer at Monument Advocacy, whose clients include Waymo, said a central fault line between the Trump framework and Congress will be sweeping preemption of state regulations.
It “runs headfirst” into longstanding skepticism of overriding states from some lawmakers, he said.
“That tension doesn’t just create a policy gap, it creates a real sequencing and timing challenge on the Hill,” Hoefer said. “Layer in limited floor time, the breadth of stakeholders now engaged, from tech and energy to creators, and the midterm dynamics, and it becomes difficult to see how you bridge that divide in the near term.”