The Trump administration is quietly advancing a sweeping new contracting clause that would empower federal officials to force artificial intelligence companies to scrap safety protocols, eliminate privacy protections, and follow other Trump directives as a condition of doing business with the government, according to draft text reviewed by the Lever.

The new proposal comes just as the Trump administration faces off in court against the major AI company and military contractor Anthropic, which has objected to government directives mandating the use of its algorithms for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.

The proposed government-wide change to procurement policy would require all artificial intelligence vendors to make their technology available to federal agencies “for any lawful government purpose” — even those that the companies object to or that their systems are engineered to prevent. This would enshrine the same demand that the Pentagon is contesting in court in its ongoing battle against Anthropic.