The draft includes creating a federal litigation task force and withholding certain federal funds from states.

The draft order comes after Republicans in Congress failed to pass a federal ban on state AI regulation, as more lawmakers raise concerns about the technology.

A leaked draft shows the White House pushing federal AI standards that could override state laws, reshape regulation and spark a major showdown over America’s AI future.

An executive order reportedly planned for Friday calls for applying a legal concept known as the “dormant commerce clause” to AI — an idea that has been percolating in tech-industry memos and certain legal scholarship for more than a year. And now it appears to have jumped directly into the White House’s policy thinking.

President Donald Trump has drafted an executive order that would block states from enforcing regulations around artificial intelligence, renewing an AI deregulation push that’s raising concerns among tech safety advocates and state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

US President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly drafting an executive order that would direct the country’s Department of Justice to sue American states that are passing laws regulating Artificial Intelligence.

The White House plans an executive order to block states from passing laws regulating AI, as we reported Wednesday. Instead of state laws, the order suggests there should be a federal law governing the information that AI companies have to disclose and how they handle potential bias in models.

MAGA has recently had some splinters over the Jeffrey Epstein files and foreign policy, with a monumental break between Trump and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. Greene has served as one of Trump’s most influential surrogates, amplifying his message across the hard-right base and shaping grassroots activism.

But because AI is such a new technology area with many unknowns and policymakers don’t want to stymie development, actually getting laws on the books has been a slow challenge. Recognizing the advantage of being a first mover in the space and seeing its nexus to existing privacy laws,