Over the summer, Congress killed a Republican attempt, led by Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, to prevent states from regulating AI. The Senate also voted nearly unanimously to remove a 10-year moratorium on the enforcement of state AI regulation from Trump's sweeping domestic policy bill, the “Big Beautiful Bill.”

The Republican-controlled EEOC’s anticipated narrowing of its pregnancy bias rules would put it at odds with the Trump administration’s push to make in vitro fertilization more accessible.