Congress To Seize Control Of AI: States Stripped Of Regulatory Power

Buried deep in Congress’s 1,116-page “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” is a provision so sweeping, so dystopian, and so underreported that it’s hard to believe it was passed out of a committee.

Section 43201 of the bill, blandly titled the “Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology Modernization Initiative,” doesn’t just fund the federal government’s full-scale AI expansion—it removes every state’s right to regulate artificial intelligence for the next decade.

Let that sink in: For the next ten years, no state in America—not even your state—will be allowed to create its own safeguards, protections, or liability standards for how AI is developed or deployed.

“No State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models… during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.”
—Sec. 43201(c)(1) of the bill

This is not a theoretical threat.

It’s a federal ban on local AI regulation—handing the reins to the very bureaucrats and corporate tech giants already embedding AI into military systems, healthcare, financial markets, education, and law enforcement.

This section of the bill is a preemptive strike against state sovereignty.

It neuters legislatures and governors from protecting their own citizens—just as powerful corporations and federal agencies rush to install AI systems into every layer of society.

It’s not just overreach. It’s a federal power grab dressed as “modernization.”

And President Trump is now marching on Capitol Hill to personally demand the bill’s passage—pushing the very legislation that would shield his $500 billion Stargate AI surveillance grid from any state-level resistance.

The bill—developed by the House Budget Committee, which passed the legislation yesterday—still needs to be voted on in the House and Senate before it hits Trump’s desk, so if you want your senators and representatives to vote no on it, you can contact them here and tell them why.

The House is expected to vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill by the end of this week.

Legal Immunity for the Machines—and Their Makers

The bill doesn’t just block states from writing new AI laws.

It also forbids states from enforcing existing protections that touch on:

• How AI is trained
• What data it collects
• Whether it discriminates
• How it documents its decisions
• What fees are charged
• Whether citizens can sue

States are prohibited from imposing “any substantive design, performance, data-handling, documentation, civil liability, taxation, fee, or other requirement” unless the federal government already does.
—Sec. 43201(c)(2)

In plain terms: If the feds don’t regulate it, no one can.

Big Tech and government agencies now have a green light to roll out unchecked AI systems nationwide—with zero legal accountability at the state level.

Why Would This Be in a Budget Bill?

Why include this in a “budget reconciliation” bill about taxes, border walls, and SNAP benefits?

The answer is likely twofold:

1. It buries explosive language in a massive omnibus-style package few lawmakers or citizens will read in full—a common bureaucratic tactic. 

2. It shields federal partners from liability as the government moves to rapidly deploy AI for defense, surveillance, and healthcare decisions—especially in light of rising pushback at the state level.

From biometric surveillance bans to AI-policing moratoriums, states have started pushing back.

This bill apparently ends that resistance and the implications are chilling

This isn’t about streamlining federal IT. It’s about silencing the last level of local resistance before the AI apparatus is fully operational.

States can’t regulate it. Citizens can’t sue for it. And no one—not even your elected state representatives—can step in to stop it.

Welcome to the federal AI regime, where the machines make decisions, and you don’t get a vote.