The White House publishes an AI Action Plan
Trump signed three accompanying executive orders the same day, including one directing agencies to favour AI models the administration deems free of 'ideological bias.'
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The Trump administration published “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” a document identifying more than 90 federal policy actions organised under three pillars: accelerating innovation, building American AI infrastructure, and leading in international AI diplomacy and security. It followed a January 2025 executive order, “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in AI,” which had directed agencies to draft the plan.
The innovation pillar emphasised removing regulatory obstacles to AI development and deployment, including a directive that federal agencies procure only large language models judged “objective” and free from what the administration characterised as ideological bias. The infrastructure pillar focused on expediting permitting for data centres, power generation and chip fabrication, framing energy availability as a binding constraint on US AI capacity. The international pillar promoted exporting US AI systems, computing hardware and technical standards to allied and partner countries, positioned explicitly as competition with Chinese AI exports.
Trump signed three executive orders alongside the plan’s release: one instructing agencies to avoid procuring AI systems it judged ideologically biased or influenced by concepts such as diversity, equity and inclusion; one directing streamlined permitting and federal incentives for AI infrastructure projects, including on federal land; and one launching an American AI Exports Program to direct diplomatic and trade resources toward promoting US AI systems abroad.
As a policy document rather than legislation, the plan itself created no binding obligations beyond what the accompanying executive orders directed federal agencies to do, and implementation depended on individual agency rulemaking and funding decisions that followed over subsequent months. It set the administration’s framing for AI policy for the remainder of the year: infrastructure buildout and export competitiveness treated as the priority, with the December 2025 executive order on state-law preemption following the same deregulatory logic applied to states rather than federal agencies.