On January 23, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order entitled “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence.” The Executive Order seeks to maintain US leadership in AI innovation.  To that end, the Order “revokes certain existing AI policies and directives that act as barriers to American AI innovation,” but does not

As expected, the White House issued a directive to the heads of all executive departments and agencies within the first few hours after President Trump’s inauguration on January 20, requesting that they halt all non-emergency rulemaking and regulatory activity pending review by the new administration.

The order directs the executive agencies, which include the U.S.