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The Trump administration on Wednesday released its AI Action Plan—a 28-page blueprint designed to accelerate America’s AI industry and extend its global influence. Authored by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, “AI Czar” David Sacks, and science and technology adviser Michael Kratsios, the document outlines a suite of tech-friendly directives, ranging from discouraging state-level AI regulation to opening public lands for new data center construction.

That hands-off approach reflects the Trump administration’s broader stance toward tech: minimal regulation in exchange for political support. To that end, the “action plan” directs all federal agencies to delete regulations from earlier administrations that could “unnecessarily hinder AI development or deployment.”

The “plan” doesn’t reprise the ban on state AI regulation that was struck from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act as some had feared. But it tries to frustrate state AI regulation by instructing federal agencies to condition funding on how friendly the state’s regulatory environment is to AI R&D. The plan also issues a vague threat against states........

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