The AI Brisket Blueprint: One National Rulebook, Not Fifty Little Fiefdoms
United States – March 22, 2026 – Trump just served Congress an AI rulebook: fewer shackles, more watts, and no 50-state chaos. Let the deep soy state cope.
I could smell it before I even read it. That sharp scent of panic, like a bureaucrat sweating through a cardigan while a diesel truck idles outside the building just to remind him reality exists. America is trying to build the future, and the swamp is trying to hand it a clipboard.
White House rolls out a national AI legislative framework
On March 20, the White House released a National AI Legislative Framework: legislative recommendations meant to keep the U.S. in the AI driver’s seat without turning it into a 50-state regulatory demolition derby. The central idea is simple: Congress should set a consistent national policy, including preempting state AI laws that impose undue burdens.
But it also draws lines around what states can still do. The framework says a national standard should still leave room for states to enforce generally applicable laws like child protection, fraud prevention, and consumer protection, plus state zoning decisions and rules governing a state’s own use of AI.
In plain English: one highway speed limit, not fifty toll booths run by fifty different cousins of the same trial lawyer.
The villain is the patchwork
Let me thump the bar: the villain here is not AI. The villain is the deep soy state’s favorite business model: turn anything new into a paperwork carnival, then sell tickets through compliance consultants and lawsuit buffets.
The framework argues that AI development is inherently interstate and that states should not be permitted to regulate AI development itself. It also argues states should not penalize AI developers for a third party’s unlawful conduct involving their models, and should not unduly burden Americans’ lawful use of AI.
At the same time, it says states should keep traditional police powers for generally applicable laws, keep zoning authority over infrastructure siting, and keep control over procurement and use of AI in state services like law enforcement and public education. Federalism, with a seatbelt on.
Power bills and permits: AI needs watts, not whiplash
The framework calls out a real-world issue: protecting residential ratepayers from increased electricity costs tied to new AI data center construction and operation. Data centers do not run on vibes. They run on power.
Instead of pretending the answer is to ban progress, it recommends streamlining federal permitting so AI developers can build or procure on-site and behind-the-meter generation, accelerate infrastructure buildout, and support grid reliability.
Main Street gets a shot
The framework says Congress should provide AI resources to small businesses, including grants, tax incentives, and technical assistance, so AI tools spread across American industry. That is predictability and permission to move, not a compliance choke collar.
Speech, copyright, and regulation
- Free speech: Defend First Amendment protections and prevent the federal government from coercing technology providers to alter content based on partisan or ideological agendas.
- Copyright: The administration believes training AI models on copyrighted material does not violate copyright laws, acknowledges arguments to the contrary, and supports letting courts resolve it.
- Regulators: Recommends Congress not create a new federal rulemaking body to regulate AI, instead relying on existing regulators and industry-led standards.
- Build to win: Calls for regulatory sandboxes and making federal datasets accessible in AI-ready formats.
Bottom line, hot off the grill: protect kids and communities, keep power bills from going feral, defend speech, respect creators, and stop treating innovation like contraband brisket that needs twelve stamps before it hits the smoker.
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