We detest cozy relationships between big business and big government, and one of our UP priorities is to end ALL corporate welfare and corrupt crony handouts. The less time corporate America spends in Washington the better.

That said, we were struck by a January 17 letter sent by Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bennet to Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI. The letter demands answers to detailed questions about a $1 million personal contribution he’d made to the Trump Inaugural Fund. They complained that Altman’s donations “raise questions about corruption” and that he was using his money to “cozy up” to Trump to “avoid scrutiny, limit regulation, and buy favor.”

To his credit, Altman zinged them back on X masterfully exposing their towering hypocrisy:

Was there any administration that offered up more graft to big business than Joe Biden? Remember the $100 billion in green energy grants John Podesta shoveled out the door in the last days of the Biden administration? Or the $50+ billion Chips Act?