"It starts with people hold their governments and representatives accountable".

That is basically a non-answer and doesn't mean anything.
The reality is AI is classified a national security priority and therefore has the US govt to prevent it from running out of money.

You could argue that the US has already lost the AI race to China, though. The race isn't won by building the gigantic LLMs. It isn't about 1 million token context windows or 1 trillion parameter models. It's about sentiment. Deepseek and the other distilled models take a novel approach with MoE and strict use case training, but ultimately its the willingness of people/companies to use the AI that results in the win.

US adoption is still the highest world-wide, but China is starting to take the lead on that and have they have stronger willingness to use it.