US Executive Order 14179 'Removing Barriers to American Leadership in AI', America's AI Action Plan, and the Dec 2025 state-preemption EO
President Donald J. Trump · 2025-01-23 (EO 14179); 2025-07-23 (AI Action Plan); 2025-12-11 (preemption EO)
The 2025 US policy reset: cancel the Biden safety order, publish a growth-first action plan, and try to override state AI laws. It replaced mandatory reporting with voluntary testing agreements while attacking laws like California's and New York's.
What it calls for
- Anti concentration
Scope
US federal executive branch
What actually happened
EO 14179 revoked EO 14110's policies and ordered an action plan within 180 days; the plan was delivered 2025-07-23 (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Americas-AI-Action-Plan.pdf) with 90+ actions on deregulation, infrastructure and exports. The 2025-12-11 order created a DOJ AI Litigation Task Force to challenge state AI laws and conditioned BEAD broadband funds on states not enforcing 'onerous' AI laws (https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/eliminating-state-law-obstruction-of-national-artificial-intelligence-policy/; https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trump-signs-executive-order-to-preempt-state-ai-laws). The administration also refused to sign the Paris statement and withheld support for the 2026 International AI Safety Report. Meanwhile CAISI expanded voluntary pre-release testing to Google, Microsoft and xAI in May 2026 (https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/05/ai-oversight-trump-google-microsoft-xai.html).