The Trump administration is asking corporations to identify state laws “that hinder America’s economic growth, including those that burden industry.” Corporate lobbies are now responding to the Justice Department’s request with their wish lists of consumer protection laws they want the Trump administration to preempt.

This is no empty threat: in July, the Trump administration sued California after residents voted to mandate that eggs sold in the state come from cage-free hens.

According to corporations’ regulatory “kill list,” that legal attack should just be the beginning. In response to the Trump administration’s recent request, the big-business-backed Abundance Institute called for “clearing the path” for a total artificial intelligence takeover of the economy by federally preempting, or nullifying, all state AI regulations — a provision so controversial that Senate Republicans were forced to strip it from the Big Beautiful Bill.