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Musk huddles with Energy and Commerce GOP

It comes a day after the Trump ally and head of the Department of Government Efficiency initiative met with Senate Commerce Republicans.

By Ben Leonard and Anthony Adragna

Elon Musk met with House Energy and Commerce Republicans Thursday morning to discuss energy issues and artificial intelligence, according to a person with direct knowledge of the confab.

It came a day after President Donald Trump’s ally and head of the Department of Government Efficiency initiative met with Senate Republicans — many of them on the Commerce Committee — on similar issues, including bolstering competitiveness with China.

Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) has taken a keen interest in artificial intelligence — including proposing a 10-year moratorium on state and local regulation of AI models in his portion of Republicans’ domestic policy package that passed the House on Thursday morning, and honing in on ways to tackle the technology’s high level of energy use.

After the meeting, Guthrie said Musk’s conversation with lawmakers focused on the energy needs for further AI development in the U.S: “It’s a national security issue, and we’re going to fix it — and we’re going to have to find a way to work bipartisan, to do it.”

“We’re dependent on China for so many things,” he continued, adding that this dynamic “has to be the focus” for how Congress proceeds in the policy arena.

Undiscussed during the meeting, according to Guthrie, was Musk’s role in President Donald Trump’s Washington going forward — even as the billionaire tech mogul has receded from public view.

“Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough time to get into that,” Guthrie said. “We would have liked to have.”

Scores of GOP committee members were present for the session, which took place mere hours after the House advanced the party’s megabill in a marathon legislative session. Guthrie joked: “I think everybody’s ready to take a nap now.”

Musk, wearing a Tesla bomber jacket, posed for pictures with members inside the committee room, but did not respond to shouted questions as he exited.

Not everyone indicated they’d learned a ton from the session with Musk.

“Just typical AI talk — how we need energy, what we’re going to need, how we’re going to get it,” said Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.). “Kind of boring, to be honest with you.”