Senate Strips AI Moratorium Amid Sharp Bipartisan Opposition

Republicans Remove Controversial AI Regulatory Ban in Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Chris Riotta (@chrisriotta) • July 1, 2025

The U.S. Senate passed Tuesday its version of President Donald Trump's domestic tax and spending bill after stripping out a controversial 10-year federal ban on state regulations for artificial intelligence that faced bipartisan opposition.

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Inclusion of the AI moratorium in the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" triggered pushback from even the president's loyal allies, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who admitted she hadn't read the bill before voting "yes" on a version with the ban and said she would have opposed it had she'd known. The Senate tried to soften the measure by cutting the moratorium to five years with exceptions, but it still faced sharp criticism from technology ...