A draft White House executive order would seek to override state AI laws by encouraging federal legal challenges, pressuring states through grant conditions, and promoting a national regulatory standard.

The plan, involving AI adviser David Sacks, would create an AI Litigation Task Force under the attorney general and direct agencies to identify and confront state rules that conflict with federal priorities.

It also instructs federal regulators like the FCC and FTC to consider national reporting and disclosure standards that could preempt state requirements.

The proposal has sparked tension among Republicans, dividing those who support federal uniformity from those who see it as overreach or a “Big Tech bailout,” Axios has reported.

While the executive order cannot itself preempt state law, it can drive agency action, motivate litigation, and increase pressure on Congress to act.