Overview
- Drafts obtained by multiple outlets show an executive order directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to create an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge state AI statutes as unconstitutional or preempted.
- The documents instruct Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to identify states that could lose eligibility for BEAD broadband funds over contested AI rules, with agency actions mapped to a 90‑day timeline.
- The White House characterizes discussion of the draft as speculative until an announcement, even as Trump urges Congress to insert federal preemption into the NDAA or pass a standalone bill.
- Republicans and Democrats register resistance to sidelining states, with figures such as Ron DeSantis, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Hakeem Jeffries, and labor groups like the Teamsters warning of federal overreach.
- State measures in California on AI safety and transparency, Colorado’s limits on algorithmic discrimination, and Tennessee’s voice‑cloning protections are cited as potential targets, setting up legal fights prized by industry advocates of a uniform federal standard.