Today, Representatives Don Beyer (VA-08), Jamie Raskin (MD-08), Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC-AL), and Glenn Ivey (MD-04) demanded the Trump Administration take immediate steps to safely remove over 35,000 cubic yards of toxic debris that the president recklessly deposited onto the East Potomac National… Read more »
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WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Lawmakers are demanding the Trump administration clean up debris from the White House East Wing demolition dumped at East Potomac Park.
In a letter sent to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Democratic members of Congress, including Jamie Raskin, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Don Beyer and Glenn Ivey said, “We demand that you… Read more »
Originally posted on: ARLnow
Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) is faulting the Trump administration’s abrupt move to cut off access to two of Anthropic’s most advanced AI models, calling the federal government’s approach to the technology “haphazard.”
Anthropic, one of the country’s largest AI companies, said it was ordered this month to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for any… Read more »
Representatives Don Beyer (VA-08), Deborah Ross (NC-02), and Jeff Hurd (CO-3) introduced the AI Flaw Reporting and Security Enhancement Act, bipartisan legislation to strengthen the security of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The bill would create a voluntary federal reporting program through which AI developers can disclose vulnerabilities in their models, enabling coordinated… Read more »
As Congress considers President Trump’s $1.5 trillion request for Pentagon spending and SpaceX wins billions in Golden Dome contracts, Representatives Don Beyer (VA-08) and John Garamendi (CA-08) and Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), co-chairs of the bicameral Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group, today led their colleagues in a letter to Secretary… Read more »
U.S. Representatives Don Beyer (D-VA) and Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Co-Chairs of the Egypt Human Rights Caucus, urged the Egyptian government to immediately release Galal El-Bahairy, who was been imprisoned since March 2018 on baseless charges related to his writing of lyrics critical of President El-Sisi.
“Following Ahmed Douma's sentencing, poet Galal El-Behairy, who has been held for 8… Read more »
Representative Don Beyer (VA-08), co-chair of the House Artificial Intelligence Caucus, and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, today reintroduced the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Environmental Impacts Act of 2026. The legislation would require artificial intelligence (AI) data centers to report on their environmental and… Read more »
Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), co-Chair of the bipartisan Congressional Artificial Intelligence Caucus, today issued the following statement on President Trump’s executive order asking artificial intelligence companies to provide the federal government with early access to models on a voluntary basis:
“The risks posed by frontier AI models and their advanced cyber capabilities are real… Read more »
Originally posted on: NBC 4 Washington
One of the president's latest passion projects is getting new pushback from congressional Democrats.
Virginia Democrat Rep. Don Beyer is cosponsoring a bill to block President Donald Trump's proposed Triumphal Arch that would stand 250 feet tall between Arlington National Cemetery and the Memorial Bridge.
“Everyone I've talked to in Virginia… Read more »
Rep. Don Beyer today introduced the Arlington National Cemetery Viewshed Protection Act, legislation that would prohibit President Trump’s proposed arch project, along with co-lead Rep. Dina Titus and 31 additional cosponsors. Beyer also pressed Trump Administration officials for details and studies on potential traffic impacts if construction proceeds.
Trump’s arch proposal relies on… Read more »
