Trump's AI Executive Orders, by Date

The AI Executive Orders, in Date Order

Trump signed artificial intelligence (AI) executive orders on five dated entries in 2025, one of them month-only. The order dated 11 December 2025 is the one that sets up a federal effort against state AI laws, and it is the order this page covers in most detail. The table lists each order in date order.

The July date covers more than one order. The January 2025 order revoked Executive Order 14110 of 30 October 2023, which covered safe, secure, and trustworthy AI development and use. Tech Policy Press gives no executive order numbers for most of the items above, so this page gives titles where we have no confirmed number.

A January 2026 report from the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), titled "Artificial Intelligence and the Great Divergence," appears on the same Tech Policy Press timeline. It is a report and not an executive order, so it is left out of the table.

What the 11 December 2025 Order Requires

The 11 December 2025 order, titled "Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence," sets out six federal actions. Each one names an official and, in most cases, a deadline counted in days.

1. Attorney General, within 30 days: create an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge state AI laws that conflict with the order's policy.
2. Commerce Department, with the White House, within 90 days: publish an evaluation identifying existing state AI laws it considers "onerous."
3. Commerce, within 90 days: issue a Policy Notice on the conditions under which states with onerous laws may be ineligible for BEAD "non-deployment funds." Agencies must also evaluate conditioning discretionary grants on states not enacting or enforcing inconsistent AI laws.
4. FCC Chairman, within 90 days of the Commerce evaluation: start a proceeding on a federal AI reporting and disclosure standard that would preempt conflicting state laws.
5. FTC Chairman, within 90 days: issue a policy statement on applying Section 5 of the FTC Act, which covers unfair and deceptive practices, to AI models.
6. White House: prepare legislative recommendations for a uniform federal AI framework that preempts conflicting state laws.

Whether each deadline was met, and what each agency published, is not covered by our sources. This page does not report any filing by the task force or any published Commerce evaluation.

What the Order Does Not Reach

Section 8 says the preemption in the legislative recommendations would not reach otherwise lawful state laws on three named topics: child safety, computer and data center infrastructure (except generally applicable permitting reforms), and state government AI procurement and use. It adds other topics to be determined, so the full carve-out list is not known.

What the Order Means for State AI Laws

The December order puts pressure on state AI laws through litigation, a published list, federal funding conditions, and a planned federal disclosure standard.

The litigation lever is the AI Litigation Task Force, which the Attorney General must create within 30 days. Its job is to challenge state laws that conflict with the order's policy. This page holds no record of any challenge the task force has filed.

The funding lever works through BEAD non-deployment funds and through grant conditions. A state with an onerous law may be ineligible for those funds, and agencies must evaluate conditioning discretionary grants on states not enacting or enforcing inconsistent AI laws. Our sources do not say which states, if any, have been affected.

The disclosure lever is the FCC proceeding on a federal AI reporting and disclosure standard. The standard would preempt conflicting state laws, and the proceeding starts after the Commerce evaluation is published. This page reports no court ruling on the order, because our sources report none.

If your question is whether one particular state law appears on the Commerce list, that list is the document to find. The December order names the evaluation, but our sources do not say where it is published. For the wider split between state and federal AI rules, read the explainer on state versus federal AI regulation. Bills at the state level are covered in the AI legislation section.

The Data Center Permitting Order and Data Center Neighbors

The July 2025 order titled "Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure" speeds federal permitting for data center infrastructure. The Tech Policy Press timeline lists it among the orders signed the same day as the AI Action Plan.

Our sources describe the order as a federal permitting measure. They do not say whether it changes local zoning, public hearings, or notice to nearby residents, so this page cannot say what changes for a neighbor of a proposed data center.

The December order adds a state-law point. It carves state laws on computer and data center infrastructure out of the preemption it describes, except generally applicable permitting reforms. For a specific project, three questions separate the parts of this list that apply:

1. Is the permit a federal permit that the July order's faster permitting process covers?
2. Is a state rule on the infrastructure one that the December order's carve-out leaves in place?
3. Is that state rule a generally applicable permitting reform, which is the one exception to the carve-out?

The AI data center moratorium explainer covers the separate question of pauses on new data center construction.

The Education Order and Schools

Executive Order 14277, signed 23 April 2025, covers AI in education. Its sections set out six parts, each assigned to a named office or program.

• Task force (Section 4): a White House Task Force on AI Education, chaired by the OSTP Director.
• Challenge (Section 5): a Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge.
• Partnerships (Section 6): K-12 partnerships with industry, academia and nonprofits to develop online AI literacy resources.
• Grant guidance (Section 6(c)): Education Department guidance on using AI in education funding, due within 90 days.
• Teacher training (Section 7): AI-training priorities in federal teacher-training grants, due within 120 days.
• Apprenticeships and courses (Section 8): AI-related Registered Apprenticeships and high school AI course and certification opportunities, due within 120 days.

The full order is on the White House page for Executive Order 14277. None of the listed parts sets a ban on AI in classrooms or a rule on teacher staffing. For those questions, read the explainers on whether AI will replace teachers and whether AI is banned in schools.

What This List Does Not Cover

This list stops at the orders our sources cover, and Ban the Bots last checked it on 21 October 2026. Any order signed after December 2025 is outside it.

Several gaps remain inside the list itself. Order numbers for most of the 2025 items are not confirmed by our sources. The full text of the July orders and the Genesis Mission order is not included here. Neither are the Commerce evaluation, the task force filings, and the FCC and FTC outputs. To check for newer orders, open the White House presidential actions page and look for any order dated after 11 December 2025.