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ChatGPT is Congress' favorite AI tool, taking ~90% of House AI spending
Citing CNBC and House disbursement records, TechCrunch reports OpenAI received roughly 90% of all AI-tool spending by House offices during the year ending March 31, about $100,580 across 798 transactions on ChatGPT out of at least $113,740 in total. Anthropic's Claude trailed at $13,160, and Democratic offices outspent Republican ones three to one.
ChatGPT is quietly dominating how the U.S. Congress spends money on AI. According to TechCrunch, citing CNBC, OpenAI's ChatGPT has become Congress' AI tool of choice so far in terms of money spent, based on House disbursement records.
During the year ending March 31, OpenAI received roughly 90% of all spending on AI tools by House offices, committees and institutional accounts: Congress spent around $100,580 across 798 transactions on ChatGPT, out of at least $113,740 in total AI spending.
Anthropic's Claude trailed in second place at $13,160 across 37 transactions, a wide gap behind ChatGPT.
The records also show a sharp partisan split: Democratic offices accounted for $54,165 in AI purchases, three times the $15,782 spent by Republican offices.
Notably, the figures exclude AI use from free accounts and AI bundled into broader software contracts, so actual adoption on Capitol Hill is likely larger.
Congressional staffers are using ChatGPT and other tools to write memos, summarize and analyze legislation, respond to constituents, prepare hearing materials, sort through policy research, and even draft social media posts — AI is now embedded in the daily workflow of lawmakers' offices.
The concentration of spending in a single vendor, alongside the partisan gap, turns the abstract debate over AI governance into a measurable reality — and gives procurement fairness new relevance.
What to watch next: whether Congress adopts unified AI-use rules, diversifies its vendors, and whether AI spending keeps climbing in the next fiscal year.
Why it matters
AI is now embedded in congressional workflows; spending concentration and partisan gaps will feed the U.S. AI governance and procurement debate.
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