White House leans on GOP states over AI rules

The Trump administration is pushing back on Republican-led AI bills in Nebraska and Tennessee, with sources familiar with the negotiations describing the outreach as pressure to weaken or abandon the efforts. White House officials spoke to lawmakers in each state to push for changes, and some sources cast the outreach as an inappropriate pressure tactic. "It's important that we let the public know that we have unelected bureaucrats weighing in on issues they shouldn't be," said one Republican state legislator. This comes after the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs sent a letter to Utah officials opposing a Republican-led AI transparency and kids' safety bill there. The bills discussed in Nebraska and Tennessee originally mirrored AI transparency measures in states like California and New York.