President Donald Trump championed over $90 billion in fresh energy and artificial intelligence investments in Pennsylvania on Tuesday.

Trump led the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy & Innovation Summit, accompanied by top tech and energy leaders, as well as Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) and members of his Cabinet.

“This afternoon, 20 leading technology and energy companies are announcing more than $92 billion of investments in Pennsylvania,” said Trump. “This is a really triumphant day for the people of the commonwealth and for the United States of America.”

“The investments being announced this afternoon include more than $56 billion dollars in new energy infrastructure, and more than $36 billion dollars in new data center projects. And a lot more than that are going to be announced in the coming weeks,” he said.

The Trump administration has prioritized the development of both AI and energy in a bid to lead the world in the advance of the next major technological breakthrough. The administration has placed special emphasis on the need to compete with China in AI development.

“We’re here today because we believe that America’s destiny is to dominate every industry and be the first in every technology, and that includes being the world’s number one superpower in artificial intelligence,” the president said.

“We are way ahead of China,” he added. “I have to say we’re way ahead of China, and the plants are starting up, the construction is starting up.”

The tens of billions in investments to pour into the Keystone State include a $25 billion commitment from Blackstone Inc. Blackstone plans to build AI centers, as well as energy infrastructure to help power those centers.

“What makes us so excited about this area is that you can co-locate the data centers next to the source of power,” Blackstone President Jon Gray said Tuesday, according to Bloomberg. “The special sauce here is putting these together, because building transmission lines, pipelines — that’s really difficult.”

The Trump administration has leaned hard into increasing fossil fuel energy production in the United States to keep pace with the surging power demand of expanding AI centers. Data centers have increased the pressure on the United States’ already strained grid.

The Energy Department released a report earlier this month warning “that blackouts could increase by 100 times in 2030 if the U.S. continues to shutter reliable power sources and fails to add additional firm capacity.”

Senate Republicans are removing $400 million in proposed funding cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program from a rescissions package ahead of a deadline at the end of this week.

The decision was announced after GOP senators met on Tuesday with White House Director Russell Vought regarding the measure designed to codify spending reductions in line with recommendations from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) told reporters there was “a lot of interest among our members in doing something on the PEPFAR issue,” resulting in a “small modification” that leaves the rescissions package, which seeks to slash funds for programs Republicans deem to be wasteful and ideologically driven, at roughly $9 billion.

The GOP-led House narrowly passed the rescissions package in June following a request by the Trump administration. It sought to claw back $9.4 billion in “reckless spending,” as House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told The Daily Wire, by targeting foreign aid projects and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funds to NPR and PBS.

Under the Impoundment Control Act, lawmakers in Congress were given 45 days to act on the request, and it requires only a simple majority in the House and Senate — meaning the filibuster threshold can be ignored. The deadline is Friday, meaning the Senate and the House must both pass the revised measure in the next couple of days.

House Republicans had been urging the Senate not to make any changes, but they could end up approving the slimmer version, particularly after the White House reportedly gave the Senate its blessing to remove the PEPFAR section.

Rep. Mark Harris (R-NC) responded in particular to Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who said she wanted to strike the PEPFAR cuts from the rescissions package, contending the program was a success in saving millions of lives.

“All of that spending” is a far cry from PEPFAR’s original mission, to combat “the AIDS epidemic in Africa when it first started,” Harris told The Daily Wire.

In addition, a senior Trump administration official told The Daily Wire on Tuesday that “limited” program cuts to PEPFAR took aim at “LGBTQ education and capacity building — not core life-saving care.”

Democrat senators and the independents who caucus with them are likely to vote in unison against passing the measure, leaving Republicans and their slim majority unable to afford more than a couple GOP defectors. Vice President JD Vance might be needed for a tie-breaker.

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) announced on Monday that he came around on the rescissions package after the Trump administration helped find money that could be reallocated to continue grants for tribal broadcast services that offer “potentially lifesaving emergency alerts” in his state.