White House and Hill Relaunch Effort to Block State AI Laws, Packaging Preemption With Kids Online Safety Act and Anti-Deepfake Measures

The White House and Congressional allies led by Sen. Marsha Blackburn have relaunched negotiations to preempt state AI laws by pairing federal override authority with passage of the Kids Online Safety Act, age verification requirements, and anti-deepfake legislation, per Axios. The renewed push comes as states accelerate their own AI regulation and follows Trump signing an AI and cybersecurity executive order last week that calls for voluntary pre-deployment testing of frontier models. A deal would trade the tech industry's top priority — overriding a patchwork of state AI rules — for bipartisan child-safety and deepfake protections.