On March 20, 2026, the White House unveiled its National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, providing a blueprint on legislative recommendations and urging Congress to act. It recommends that Congress create a unified federal standard to reduce the regulatory friction of competing state AI regimes, promote AI innovation and develop an AI-ready workforce, while ensuring the protection of children, consumers and intellectual property rights.

The framework is a serious, if incomplete, attempt to bring coherence to an enforcement landscape that has been improvising. Congress has been handed a blueprint, but whether it is able to enact comprehensive federal legislation is another matter.