President Donald J. Trump Ensures a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence – The White House

PREVENTING A PATCHWORK OF AI REGULATIONS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to protect American AI innovation from an inconsistent and costly compliance regime resulting from varying State laws. 

• The Order directs the Attorney General to establish an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge unconstitutional, preempted, or otherwise unlawful State AI laws that harm innovation.
• The Order directs the Secretary of Commerce to publish an evaluation of State AI laws that conflict with national AI policy priorities and withhold non-deployment Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) funding from any State with such AI laws. Other agencies are directed to consider whether to make an absence of similar laws, or a policy of enforcement discretion with respect to any existing such laws, a condition of applicable discretionary grant programs.
• The Order instructs the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission to take actions that will limit States’ ability to force AI companies to deceive consumers, including determining whether laws that force companies to embed DEI into their models cause those companies to violate the Federal Trade Commission Act, and considering whether to adopt a Federal reporting and disclosure standard for AI models.
• The Order calls for the development of a national AI legislative framework that would preempt State AI laws that stifle innovation.

STRENGTHENING AMERICAN COMPETITVENESS: President Trump is acting decisively to ensure our great technological pioneers can compete on the world stage, ensuring America’s national security and economic prosperity in the age of AI.

• State legislatures have introduced over 1,000 different AI bills, creating a patchwork of rules, disclosures, and reporting requirements.
• States such as California and Colorado are considering requiring AI companies to censor outputs and insert left-wing ideology in their programming.
• Reducing the compliance costs and development burdens associated with varying state laws will lower barriers to entry in AI and enhance innovation, and ensure that American companies are not subject to restrictions that their international competitors do not face.
• The most restrictive States should not be allowed to dictate national AI policy at the expense of America’s domination of this new frontier.

ENABLING COMMON SENSE AI POLICY: The Trump Administration supports a common sense approach to AI policy. This means removing unnecessary red tape, updating out-of-date rules created before AI advancements, and clarifying new rules for certain sectors or use-cases.

• President Trump: “Investment in AI is helping to make the U.S. Economy the ‘HOTTEST’ in the World, but overregulation by the States is threatening to undermine this Major Growth ‘Engine.’ Some States are even trying to embed DEI ideology into AI models, producing ‘Woke AI’ (Remember Black George Washington?). We MUST have one Federal Standard instead of a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes. If we don’t, then China will easily catch us in the AI race.”
• The Trump Administration is committed to protecting the dignity, privacy, and safety of children in the digital age. In May 2025, President Trump signed the Take It Down Act, legislation championed by the First Lady to protect young Americans from deepfake exploitation online.
• The Order builds on President Trump’s record of promoting AI models that seek truth and accuracy. In July 2025, he signed an Executive Order preventing the federal government from using AI models that include ideological biases or social agendas.
• Today’s Executive Order delivers on President Trump’s AI Action Plan released in July 2025, which called for examining and removing onerous regulations that hinder America’s ability to lead in this key technology.