White House Releases Framework for AI

The long-anticipated Trump administration artificial intelligence (AI) legislative framework has been released.  The March 20, 2026, White House statement listed six policy priority areas:  protecting families; safeguarding communities, respecting intellectual property rights; censorship and free speech; American AI dominance, and ensuing an AI-ready workforce.  The administration made it clear that a national framework is essential:  “Importantly, this framework can succeed only if it is applied uniformly across the United States.  A patchwork of conflicting state laws would undermine American innovation and our ability to lead in the global AI race.”

The administration’s framework parallels the proposals made in Citizens Against Government Waste’s report entitled Artificial Intelligence: The Smart Play Is Stay Out of the Way.  The March 4, 2026, report suggested that AI  regulation should be the purview of the federal government, with preemption of state laws that conflict with a federal framework.

President Trump’s release of the framework comes two days after Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) released a draft of an AI regulation bill, “The Republic Unifying Meritocratic Performance Advancing Machine intelligence by Eliminating Regulatory Interstate Chaos Across American Industry Act” (The TRUMP AMERICA AI Act).  The 291-page draft bill covers AI developers’ duty of care to children’s online safety and privacy, protection of intellectual property rights, and standards for the development and use of AI.

CAGW will be closely monitoring AI legislation and regulatory activity to ensure that the actions taken by Congress and the Trump administration result in continued U.S. global  leadership in AI.