PYMNTS.com June 26, 2025
The Senate parliamentarian has reportedly raised further questions about a provision in the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” that would ban states from making rules about artificial intelligence (AI), after initially approving the provision over the weekend.
The parliamentarian advised Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz to rewrite the provision, saying that in its current form, it may violate Senate rules, Bloomberg reported Thursday (June 26), citing unnamed sources.
Senate Republicans are using a special budgetary process to fast-track the tax bill that includes the AI provision, but to stay within the chamber’s rules, they must ensure that it does not include significant policy changes, according to the report.
Critics of the provision have argued that it violates that requirement by...







