ChatGPT Captures 90% of Congress AI Spending — SkimNews
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- OpenAI's ChatGPT captured roughly 90% of all Congressional AI spending during the year ending March 31, with House offices, committees, and institutional accounts spending around $100,580 across 798 transactions, per House disbursement records.
- Anthropic's Claude came in a distant second at $13,160 across 37 transactions — roughly 13% of ChatGPT's Congressional haul.
- Democratic offices outpaced Republicans on AI tool purchases by roughly three to one, spending $54,165 versus $15,782.
- The at-least $113,740 total excludes free accounts and AI tools bundled into broader software contracts — a caveat that could significantly understate actual AI usage on Capitol Hill.
- Congressional staffers report using ChatGPT and other AI tools for writing memos, summarizing and analyzing legislation, responding to constituents, preparing hearing materials, sorting through policy research, and drafting social media posts.
Why it matters: This is a real-money snapshot of which AI vendor has captured Washington's workflow. OpenAI's near-monopoly — 90% of documented spend — means the staffers drafting memos, legislation, and hearing prep are training on ChatGPT, shaping how those outputs read. The three-to-one Democratic-over-Republican spending gap suggests one party is pulling further ahead in AI-augmented operations.
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