President Trump in the Oval Office – October 20, 2026
Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 70 that “Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government.” He did not mean a government that smothers enterprise. He meant one with the vigor to clear the path for it.
In Federalist No. 12, he called commerce “the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth.” No administration in a generation has taken those twin ideas more seriously than the one in the White House today, and the proof lies in the race to build machine intelligence.
Last July, as he signed a trio of AI executive orders, President Donald J. Trump announced that it would be American policy to “do whatever it takes to lead the world in artificial intelligence.”
He warned that if you regulate AI too much, “you kill the source of American genius and technological power.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio put it more bluntly: “Winning the AI Race is non-negotiable.” The AI Action Plan that followed rests on three pillars: innovation, infrastructure, and international partnerships. It calls for faster permitting, federal land for data centers and power plants, and relief for builders from needless regulatory burdens.
In November, the Genesis Mission order pulled federal scientific data and national laboratory supercomputers into one effort that White House science officials call the largest federal scientific push since Apollo. As OSTP Director Michael Kratsios told Congress in January, “We are approaching AI not with fear, but with responsible boldness.” The administration also moved to replace a tangle of conflicting state rules with a single national standard, which is the very idea the Constitution was written to protect: one American market rather than fifty.
The market answered. In the second quarter, AI-related private business investment ran at about $1.5 trillion a year, up 25 percent from the year before. The largest technology companies are tracking roughly $750 billion in capital spending for 2026. Overall business investment is up 6.1 percent over the past twelve months. Companies do not pour that kind of money into a country that is hostile to builders. They bring it where the government has promised to get out of the way.
The administration has also asked the builders to carry their own weight. In March, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI, and Amazon joined the President at the White House and pledged to build or buy their own power for new data centers and to keep the costs off household electric bills. More than 250 companies have signed the First Lady’s pledge to fund AI education for young Americans, committing hundreds of millions of dollars. These are examples of private enterprise taking responsibility, not Washington issuing orders.
Then there is the part ordinary Americans can touch. On September 29, the President launched America.gov, an AI-powered front door to the federal government. “With America.gov,” he declared, the federal government “no longer stands in your way. It stands only at your service.” A citizen asks a question in plain English, and the site searches some 29,000 federal websites and answers only from official sources. There is no account to create, no advertising, and no saved conversations. The Chief Design Officer, Joe Gebbia, says the goal is for people to “never go back into the maze.”
At the launch, CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz showed a woman who had spent over a year trying to enroll in Medicare. The site, he said, “explains what applies to Lisa’s situation and guides her through the decisions.” Secretary Rubio described the coming passport process this way: “No printing forms, no drugstore hostage photo, no appointment, no line.” Applications are slated to arrive through Login.gov in December, and the State Department aims for the vast majority of Americans to be able to apply this way by the end of 2027.
In early 2027, the site is scheduled to move from answers to actions, including benefits enrollment and tracking. An executive order requires every agency with a public service used by more than 100,000 people to plug in. The President’s goal is that what you need from your government will be “accessible at your fingertips.”
This is Hamilton’s point. A free market is not a passive thing. It needs a government with the energy to serve it: to clear the permits, to open the land, to build the front door, to stay out of the way of the builders. “A feeble executive,” Hamilton warned in Federalist No. 70, “implies a feeble execution of the government.” The sin of a weak government is not that it does too much. It is that it does everything badly.
Healthy skepticism is part of being a free people, and honesty requires it. Electricity prices are up 6.3 percent over the past year, and the data center pledge is voluntary. America.gov’s first phase is mostly answering questions, and critics say it is not yet a leap beyond earlier one-stop shops. These promises must be kept, and voters should hold the administration to every one of them.
But the direction is unmistakable. The Trump administration has chosen to back the people who build, to carry the costs on those who profit, and to hand the results to the citizen. Hamilton would have recognized the project. The country has chosen energy over feebleness, and the next chapter belongs to those who build.
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