White House Issues Executive Order To Promote National AI Policy Framework And Challenge Certain State AI Laws

On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order titled, Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI National Framework EO), which establishes a federal policy to "sustain and enhance the United States' global AI dominance through a minimally burdensome national policy framework for AI," and outlines a series of steps to challenge or preempt state laws that conflict with that policy statement. Specific directives include launching a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proceeding to consider a federal reporting and disclosure standard for AI models, issuing a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) policy statement regarding how the FTC Act applies to AI models and could preempt certain state laws, evaluating potential conditions on federal funding provided to states, and establishing a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) AI Litigation Task Force to challenge state AI laws inconsistent with the policy statement.