On CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Congress will not take the lead on AI safety legislation, according to CNN and Yahoo News. Johnson argued that AI companies can slow their own work at any time and that a moratorium is off the table because of competition with China. He pointed to a September 12 post by White House AI czar David Sacks, framing it as an argument that the executives now calling for guardrails are the same people pushing the frontier and should take personal responsibility first. Johnson floated summoning the major lab CEOs to a White House meeting with lawmakers to negotiate guardrails instead. It is a direct rebuff of the pacing proposals that have dominated the past week.