Senators voted 99-1 to strike a provision to discourage states from regulating AI. It was supported by many in the tech industry.

Critics of the controversial provision in the Big Beautiful Bill included a diverse group ranging from Marjorie Taylor Greene to the NAACP.

That became especially obvious when Republicans' "big, beautiful" bill proposed straight-up barring states and localities from implementing their own regulations for a full decade if they accepted certain federal funding for AI infrastructure. That provision has just been struck from the bill, though, as the Senate voted 99-1 to cut the moratorium.