Consumer and child safety groups applaud Senate’s rare 99-1 vote to protect states’ right to police ... More AI

While President Donald Trump’s sweeping economic bill cleared the Senate on Tuesday, a 10-year federal ban that would have stopped states from passing their own laws on artificial intelligence is dead. The pro-Big Tech provision was tucked inside the policy bill that Trump has been driving for weeks. Now the AI legislative ban is gone.

The Senate voted 99-1 Tuesday morning to kill the moratorium after a last-minute uproar from advocacy groups, lawmakers and tens of thousands of Americans who saw it as a dangerous overreach. They didn’t stay quiet. The Senate listened.

The removed provision would have blocked any state-level regulation of AI systems for the next decade. It offered no federal protections in return. Just a blanket freeze. No rules. No recourse.

Consumer Reports had been fighting the provision since May, when the bill first appeared. The consumer advocacy publication launched a public petition, urging senators to strike the AI amendment from the........

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