It's not about the employment though, it's the financial macroeconomics. A third or so of the US's stock market is AI companies. Let's say they all go to zero, it basically cuts a third off the US's paper wealth and a third off the US dollar's value (which is primarily based on the stocks you can buy with it). The government doesn't want that to happen so it'll try to prevent the stocks from going to zero. The cure may be worse than the disease but this government won't realize it is.