# Congress' favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

> When Congress buys AI tools, it overwhelmingly buys ChatGPT. New spending data shows the US House spent about 100,580 dollars on ChatGPT across 798 transactions in the year ending March 31, roughly 90 percent of all its AI-tool spending. Anthropic's Claude came a distant second at 13,160 dollars over just 37 transactions. The totals are small in government terms, north of 113,000 dollars all in, but the pattern is telling. ChatGPT's brand dominance among general users clearly extends to Capitol Hill, where staffers reach for the tool they already know. It is a reminder that in AI, distribution and familiarity often beat raw capability. There is a partisan wrinkle too: Democratic offices spent about three times more than Republican ones on AI tools, a small but curious signal of how the two parties are adopting the technology at different speeds.

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## Wortins' read

When Congress buys AI tools, it overwhelmingly buys ChatGPT. New spending data shows the US House spent about 100,580 dollars on ChatGPT across 798 transactions in the year ending March 31, roughly 90 percent of all its AI-tool spending. Anthropic's Claude came a distant second at 13,160 dollars over just 37 transactions. The totals are small in government terms, north of 113,000 dollars all in, but the pattern is telling. ChatGPT's brand dominance among general users clearly extends to Capitol Hill, where staffers reach for the tool they already know. It is a reminder that in AI, distribution and familiarity often beat raw capability. There is a partisan wrinkle too: Democratic offices spent about three times more than Republican ones on AI tools, a small but curious signal of how the two parties are adopting the technology at different speeds.

## Source

[Read the full story at TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/congresss-favorite-ai-tool-chatgpt/)

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