Workforce Bulletin

On July 23, 2025, the president signed three AI-related Executive Orders (“E.O.s”) to accompany the recently released White House’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan (“AI Action Plan”). These E.O.s seek to add clarity to, and drive forward, federal policy in the AI space.

While they all relate to AI, the E.O.s otherwise vary considerably in subject matter: “Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure”; “Promoting the Export of the American AI Technology Stack”; and “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government.”

As we noted in our July 24 blog, the White House is clearly determined to outpace other countries so that the U.S. benefits from any gains provided by AI through building AI infrastructure and bolstering AI-related exports. The Center for Data Innovation, from its perspective, stated in a press release that the actions pursued by the executive orders will advance U.S. goals of global AI dominance and enable the U.S. to better compete with China.

The long-awaited White House Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan (“AI Action Plan”) is here, setting forth the Trump administration’s policy recommendations to achieve the goal of “global AI dominance.”

The White House released the AI Action Plan on July 23, 2025, and delivered remarks on the plan during an AI summit. The same day, the president signed three AI-related Executive Orders to further the AI Action Plan, relating to: 1) “Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure”; 2) “Promoting the Export of the American AI Technology Stack”; and 3) “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government.” Yet it remains to be seen whether and how successfully the AI Action Plan will unfold—particularly with respect to impacts on incongruous state regulatory action.

Likening the global AI race to the space race during the Cold War, the introduction to the 28-page AI Action Plan emphasizes the need “to innovate faster and more comprehensively than our competitors in the development and distribution of new AI technology across every field and dismantle unnecessary regulatory barriers that hinder the private sector in doing so.” 

It’s July, and the White House Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) Action Plan (“Action Plan” or “the plan”) is almost here.

In Executive Order 14179 of January 23, 2025—entitled “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence”—President Donald Trump directed federal officials to develop an Action Plan to achieve the policies of sustaining and enhancing America’s dominance in global AI. The plan is expected to drop by July 23, to coincide with an address by the President outlining his vision for American AI.

The release of the Action Plan will follow a number of recent developments in AI at the state and federal levels that show no signs of abating. On July 15, for instance, the White House announced $90 billion in energy and data center investments in Pennsylvania, according to Reuters. Bloomberg reported the same day that President Trump is planning to sign another executive order to implement the Action Plan upon its release to push the policy forward.