Press Release

White House AI Roadmap Keeps Big Tech in the Driver’s Seat of America’s Affordability Crisis

07. 23. 2025

Trump’s New AI Action Plan bullies states from regulating AI at the expense of the American people

Washington, DC – Today, President Trump rolled out an AI Action Plan pushing for a hands-off regulatory approach to Artificial Intelligence, which is poised to potentially be the most disruptive technology of our time with tremendous implications for workers, safety, entrepreneurship, and more. Atop its list of provisions, the AI Action plan directs the executive branch and all relevant federal agencies to threaten states’ AI funding if they pursue “onerous regulations,” and would trample clean air and water protections for AI data centers. Economic Security Project issued the following statement in response:

“The president’s AI Action Plan gives the American people nothing but higher costs and corporate consolidation. While the full impact of AI’s economic disruption remains to be seen, we’re already seeing it concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few technology companies, and then pass on the high costs of powering the technology to American taxpayers. Corporations like RealPage are letting landlords use AI to collude and inflate rents, monopolies are leveraging surveillance tools and pricing algorithms to jack up grocery costs, and electricity bills are rising to power AI data centers,” said Anna Aurilio, Senior Director of Campaigns at Economic Security Project. “AI has great promise, but historically, Big Tech has shown us they can’t be trusted to serve the public’s best interests. We need guardrails in place to ensure the emerging technology benefits the greater good – not just a select few. We certainly can’t afford this administration’s threat to tie federal AI funding to state regulations it deems burdensome.”