Sept. 19, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement on President Donald Trump’s plan to create the U.S. AI Force branch of the military and name an AI czar:

“President Donald Trump is once again exhibiting extraordinary leadership in the domain of national security to modernize America’s military posture and capabilities, and has wisely announced his plan for the creation of the U.S. AI Force to bring artificial intelligence into the employ of the Department of War, to build the next generation of autonomous weaponry and cyber capability that will ultimately be used in war. The AI arms race has already begun, the genie is out of the bottle and we cannot wish it away. It is more than we can be on our own: the U.S. AI Force will protect national security and humanity, and put the most sensitive aspects of this technology under Department of War purview while preserving the private sector via the civilian defense contracting process.

“In addition, an AI czar will be able to coordinate directly with the White House and AI companies to work on voluntary, industry-wide standards that can review models and ensure that frontier models are safely built while avoiding regulatory bottlenecks or unnecessary Nuclear Regulatory Commission frameworks that will stifle innovation in an arms race where the next important model will soon be produced in minutes and hours, not months and years.

“In 2019, President Trump wisely issued Space Policy Directive-4 to stand up the U.S. Space Force to secure near space, eventually becoming its own branch in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, and today he has again proven the foresight in calling for establishing the U.S. AI Force within the Department of War, cementing American leadership in space and technology for the next century while keeping the private sector and free markets able to make investments without fear of nationalization. Congress should act on this proposal as it did in 2019. The U.S. must remain ahead of China and all other peer adversaries on AI, and bringing it under Department of War auspices is vital to national security.”

Attachments:

“Existing Defense And Communications Law Already Covers Frontier AI Risks,” Sept. 16, 2026 at https://getliberty.org/2026/09/existing-defense-and-communications-law-already-covers-frontier-ai-risks/

“We Need An AI Manhattan Project,” By Robert Romano, Sept. 14, 2026 at https://dailytorch.com/2026/09/we-need-an-ai-manhattan-project/

“Anti-Data Centers Is The New Nuclear Freeze: China Wants To End American AI Dominance, Energy Production And Everything Else,” By Robert Romano, Sept. 8, 2026 at https://dailytorch.com/2026/09/anti-data-centers-is-the-new-nuclear-freeze-china-wants-to-end-american-ai-dominance-energy-production-and-everything-else/

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Sept. 19, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement urging rejection of S. 2938:

“Under S. 2938, developers of the most powerful, frontier AI models now being trained would have to give their training data, weights and code to the Department of Energy upon request and if they don’t comply they’re not allowed to deploy the model and then they owe $1 million a day in fines until they comply. Congress clearly wants a permitting system and eventually a new agency but if the goal is to inspect every new training model for flaws, you’d need AI to do that, calling into question the feasibility.

“It’s not like the Nuclear Regulatory Commission where there are definite guidelines for safe reactors and securing fissile materials so they are not turned into nuclear bombs. The hardware are chips and servers and data centers. And then there’s the training data, the weights, and the code. Lots and lots of code, and these days much of it might be generated by AI coding, which eventually, not even the coders at the companies will know why it works or be able to inspect it at the speed humans work, let alone a government agency. That’s the point, to improve productivity, and as that happens, the feasibility of meaningful oversight internally or externally without AI tools is practically impossible. We’ll be hoping the thing we don’t understand will audit itself while a peer adversary will not wait. It’s the same problem as now, but with a new, unnecessary bureaucratic layer.

“The bill also defines hypothetical dangers to do with AI and then the Department of Energy writes a report to Congress and makes recommendations. That part sounds okay but it’s still unnecessary.

“Title VII of the Defense Production Act already gives the President all the authority he needs to enter into voluntary agreements with AI companies under 50 U.S. Code Sec. 4558: ‘consult with representatives of industry, business, financing, agriculture, labor, and other interests in order to provide for the making by such persons, with the approval of the President, of voluntary agreements and plans of action to help provide for the national defense…’ Voluntary agreements with the executive branch could be used to generate industry-wide standards and best practices, including peer reviewing models for security flaws.

“And the President can get any information he needs from the AI companies as it relates to national defense under 50 U.S. Code Sec. 4555: ‘The President shall be entitled, while this chapter is in effect and for a period of two years thereafter, by regulation, subpoena, or otherwise, to obtain such information from, require such reports and the keeping of such records by, make such inspection of the books, records, and other writings, premises or property of, and take the sworn testimony of, and administer oaths and affirmations to, any person as may be necessary or appropriate, in his discretion, to the enforcement or the administration of this chapter and the regulations or orders issued thereunder. The authority of the President under this section includes the authority to obtain information in order to perform industry studies assessing the capabilities of the United States industrial base to support the national defense.’

“Or else refusing to furnish information needed for the national defense can carry fines or imprisonment: ‘Any person who willfully performs any act prohibited or willfully fails to perform any act required by the above provisions of this section, or any rule, regulation, or order thereunder, shall upon conviction be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year or both.’

“AI companies are basically computer companies. They’re not deploying fissile materials. And it’s already a crime to use computers to hack other computers or engage in cyberattacks. Perhaps a better approach would be to let the Department of War oversee the industry via the execution of defense contracts on models most critical to national security, and otherwise the National Security Agency and Cyber Command should be looking for major cyberattacks originating on our own internet.

“Finally, under Section 706(d) of the Communications Act of 1934, in the event of war or threat of war, the President can already shut down communications in the interest of national security: ‘Upon proclamation by the President that there exists a state or threat of war involving the United States, the President, if he deems it necessary in the interest of the national security and defense, may, during a period ending not later than six months after the termination of such state or threat of war and not later than such earlier date as the Congress by concurrent resolution may designate, (1) suspend or amend the rules and regulations applicable to any or all facilities or stations for wire communication within the jurisdiction of the United States as prescribed by the Commission, (2) cause the closing of any facility or station for wire communication and the removal therefrom of its apparatus and equipment, or (3) authorize the use or control of any such facility or station and its apparatus and equipment by any department of the Government under such regulations as he may prescribe, upon just compensation to the owners.’ Otherwise, if the military danger to national security was as imminent as S. 2938 describes ‘reach artificial superintelligence, exceed human oversight or operational control, or pose existential threats to humanity…’ that’s a national emergency and the President could invoke the Insurrection Act to restore federal authority.

“The President already has Defense Production Act authority in the event of war to direct wartime production of AI. Voluntary agreements and capital markets can do the rest. The Department of War, NSA, Cyber Command and presidential oversight already deal with the real threats to national security including cyberattacks. A new regulatory Department of Energy bottleneck would hinder defense needs over time by slowing innovation versus peer adversaries who will not wait.”

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Despite labor support for President Trump, the legislation could advance workplace policies that directly conflict with administration priorities.

Sept. 1, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government today released findings in a new exposé, “The Faster Labor Contracts Act: Advancing the Union DEI Agenda”, revealing how a union-backed bill, the Faster Labor Contracts Act, moving through Congress would hand labor bosses a powerful new tool to impose radical diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) mandates, transgender workplace policies, and restrictions on cooperation with immigration enforcement — all without a worker vote.

This report is the latest in ALG’s series examining how union leadership continues to push priorities at odds with President Trump’s agenda and the concerns of many rank-and-file workers.

“Union contracts already cover wages, benefits, and work rules. But the Faster Labor Contracts Act (FLCA) would open the door to something far more radical. If no first contract is reached within just 120 days of unionization, the federal government steps in, appointing a panel of unelected arbitrators to write and impose a contract on both parties. Workers get no say, and there are no appeal rights,” Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano stated.

“That is an opening union bosses would not hesitate to exploit. Real-world contract language already in use shows exactly what could end up in those arbitrated agreements — more radical DEI mandates raising serious civil rights concerns, transgender workplace policies and restrictions federal immigration enforcement — with no way for employers, workers or the Trump Administration to stop it,” Romano added.

Take a contract from the Unite Here International Union, for example. The language already exists:

• The contract states that “to the extent permitted by law, the Employer will refuse to allow DHS to enter the workplace without a valid warrant” and that the employer “shall not verify non-probationary employees’ identities, immigration status, and authorization to work in the United States or social security numbers through E-Verify…unless required by law.”
• It also requires employers to “respect the stated names and pronouns of all employees regardless of any employment or legal documents.”
• And DEI is embedded directly into the agreement, which states that the parties will “agree to work collaboratively together as partners on various Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, programs, opportunities, and training.”

And it’s not just Unite Here. Across industries and campuses, the same playbook repeats:

• A standard United Food & Commercial Workers contract clause mandates that the employer will “change all legal and financial records so that all records use the names transgender workers choose and the pronouns they identify with,” including updating photographs and identification badges.
• An SEIU contract with the University of Washington requires affirmative action hiring goals for underrepresented groups, “even if that exclusion cannot be traced to particular discriminatory actions on the part of the Employer,” and quarterly diversity metrics reporting to union leadership.
• A United Auto Workers’ contract includes language on micro-aggressions, defining them as “everyday exchanges—including words and actions that denigrate and exclude individuals,” and requires universities to meet “up to three times per calendar year to evaluate progress on the joint goal of eliminating” them.
• The Chicago Teachers Union mandates “training sessions for all staff, focused on racial equity, gender equity,” and “trauma-informed education, at least once per year.”

“The Faster Labor Contracts Act would be a gift to union bosses and a betrayal of every worker who voted for President Trump in 2024,” said Romano. “It could force DEI and anti-immigration enforcement workplace policies into collective bargaining agreements that directly conflict with the administration’s priorities. Congress should reject it.”

To view online: https://getliberty.org/2026/09/new-report-faster-labor-contracts-act-advances-union-dei-agenda-through-politically-appointed-arbitrators/

Attachments:
“The Faster Labor Contracts Act: Advancing the Union DEI Agenda,” Sept. 1, 2026 at https://getliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FLCA-Advancing-Union-DEI-Agenda-Sept-2026.pdf

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July 24, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on countries using forced slave labor:

“President Trump has the courage that none of our leaders in recent history have possessed as we as a nation have looked the other way, rewarding abhorrent labor practices by buying slave-made goods. No more. Forcing American companies to compete with slavery is immoral and puts American producers at a disadvantage, only being perpetuated under the false allure of profits. Our leaders today never would have had the moral courage to abolish slavery, and the truth is, globally, it would have never been abolished without naval pressure and trade sanctions used in part. Thank you again, President Trump, for your commitment to restoring reciprocity in trade, continuing America’s commitment to slavery abolition and for having the courage that all of our other recent leaders have lacked.”

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July 17, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement urging the Senate to follow the House’s lead in passing the SAVE America Act:

“According to the Department of Homeland Security, and as highlighted in President Donald Trump’s July 16 televised address to the American people from the White House, over 250,000 non-citizens are illegally registered to vote in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada alone. It is illegal for non-citizens to register to vote, and yet it is a common enough practice to be detectable using available voter, Social Security Administration and immigration files and databases, and yet there is no legal mechanism in the Help America Vote Act to compel states to remove illegal aliens from voter rolls similar to how the deceased and those who change addresses are purged. The SAVE America Act will fix that for good, additionally requiring citizenship verification upfront to register to vote, and guaranteeing voters have to present photo identification to vote. The House has already done its part, and it is time for the Senate to finally follow its lead and get this critical legislation to President Trump’s desk. This is the United States of America, not the United States of the World where everyone from wherever is allowed to vote. To have a free country, we need secure elections and to have secure election, illegal aliens and other non-citizens must be removed from the voter rolls.”

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July 15, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement praising the House for passing the Sunshine Protection Act and urged the Senate to do the same:

“The House has finally passed legislation that will end standard time once and for all. No more sunsets in the middle of the afternoon. It’s about time. Nobody likes the constant clock changes. The fact is that under current law, there was never a way to opt out of standard time whereas states were permitted to opt out of daylight savings time if they really wanted to, as Arizona and Hawaii do. School districts can always have starting bells later to compensate if there is concern about later sunrises during the winter months, although it’s worth noting almost all districts are already on Christmas vacation during the shortest days. Clearly, based on the House vote, and unanimous passage of practically identical legislation by the Senate in 2022, and the President’s support, daylight savings time is far more popular. But really, it’s just let’s pick a time and stick with it. Compromise if needs be: shave a half hour off standard time. Anything’s better than the clock changes, and the early sunsets in the winter are frankly depressing. But the bill’s fine the way it is. It is time for the Senate to immediately take up this common sense, bipartisan legislation, stop switching the clocks and let the sun shine into the evening for good.”

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June 30, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. Barbara:

“The Supreme Court just told would-be illegal aliens everything they’ve ever wanted to hear: Just come to the U.S. and give birth, and the kids will get to stay here for life. That this is the default position of the Fourteenth Amendment — and neither Congress nor the President can do anything about it short of amending the Constitution. Unlike Justice Kavanaugh’s dissent — which at least found that Congress could amend federal statutes to address the issue of birthright citizenship for illegal aliens — the majority’s catastrophic ruling locks in anchor babies forever as a matter of constitutional mandate. Now, it will take two-thirds of the House and Senate, and three-fourths of the states to amend the Constitution if the American people decide to end the anchor baby folly. And it sends the wrong message: Nothing prevents the illegal alien parents from being deported.

“Once again, Republican-appointed justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett might believe they are forestalling a court-packing scheme by Democrats by giving them essentially what they want on these critical issues. It won’t work. One day soon within their lifetimes, they’ll be sitting on a court of 13 or 21 justices who will just pour cement on these rulings and otherwise overturn the ones Democrats don’t like, who will then lock in otherwise unconstitutional laws to secure Democratic one-party rule. And the American people will have to recognize that it was this court and this Senate who refused to pass the SAVE America Act as being the harbingers who surrendered U.S. sovereignty. This is a dark day.”

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June 29, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Watson v. Republican National Committee:

“In an apparent bid to avert Democrats’ threatened Supreme Court packing scheme, Republican-appointed justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett have apparently opted to just give Democrats everything they want including an election month voting where ballots are counted no matter how late they arrive after Election Day. Arguing there is no prohibition against late ballots, the nation’s highest court has effectively made Election Day a dead letter. Now, the only resort for the American people who want to restore same-day voting is for Congress to pass another statute to clarify what federal law has already stated for more than a century was ‘the day for the election…’ This ruling is regrettable and will prove Stalin’s maxim that it is not those who vote, but those who count the ballots that decide everything.”

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June 9, 2026, Fairfax—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement praising the House and Senate for completing its work on a second reconciliation bill, this time, to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol through the end of President Donald Trump’s second term of office:

“Congressional Democrats’ counterproductive shutdown to nowhere is finally over for good. Rather than negotiating with Republicans for reforms that were clearly available via the bipartisan appropriations process where some of everyone’s priorities get funded, they instead opted to leave Republicans with no other choice than to pass on a partisan basis budget reconciliation long term funding for ICE and Border Patrol through the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term of office. Such that, even if Democrats win one or both chambers of Congress in 2026, they will be unable to defund these agencies or their important immigration enforcement functions President Trump was elected to enforce. Even if such bills passed, they’d just be vetoed.

“Indeed, so uncooperative, and predictably obstructive are Democrats in their temper tantrum over President Trump’s 2024 reelection and enforcing sovereign borders — threatening even more government shutdowns when they are empowered with majorities — Republicans are wisely considering passing a third reconciliation measure to ensure vital national concerns including Iran are properly addressed for the next two and a half years.

“Democrats campaigned that they would never vote for President Trump’s immigration enforcement and now they never have to again. Problem solved.

“Anyone can see the level of dysfunction that awaits the American people in 2027 and beyond, and Congressional Republicans are wise to preemptively deal with it. To undo any of it, they’d need to win veto-proof majorities in both chambers. Democrats won’t even come close to that. Fill everything up to the rim and let the American people decide in 2026, 2028 and beyond.”

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