latest bid to squeeze Restrictions on states regulating AI The annual defense bill has reportedly been rejected after facing bipartisan opposition.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) said Tuesday that Republican leaders would look for “other places” to include the measure — an effort that President Trump has supported — according to hill,
The proposal to exempt states from imposing their own AI regulation comes months after GOP lawmakers sought to include 10 years moratorium on state AI laws in Trump’s tax and spending bill earlier this year. Provision fail Then due to strong resistance from both the sides.
Silicon Valley has supported such measures, arguing that state regulations create an impractical patchwork of rules that could stifle innovation.
Critics argue that most state AI laws focus on safety, transparency, and consumer protection, and in the absence of federal AI laws that perform those functions, preventing states from regulating would effectively cede control to Big Tech without any oversight.
Scalise reportedly acknowledged that there was not room to include such a provision in the defense bill, and reiterated Trump’s previous call to introduce the ban as a separate bill. A leak The draft executive order suggests Trump is considering taking matters into his own hands, though these efforts have reportedly been paused For now.
