It means funneling public funds to AI and AI-adjacent companies that grease the wheels enough with the administration. It's like everything else: the administration decides it can control funds however it wants, regardless of what was legislated, and leverages those funds for quid pro quo transactions.

Say what you will about how to improve academics and scientific research, but the current administration's modus operandi is not the way.

That’s every administration.

See previous requirements for ideological statements to receive funding.