How the White House’s AI Action Plan Could End Antitrust Overreach

Asheesh Agarwal October 8, 2025

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The AI Action Plan unveiled in July by President Donald Trump could mark a turning point for U.S. antitrust policy. By directing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to prioritize innovation, the plan offers a historic opportunity to lift onerous regulatory burdens, restore measured enforcement, and repudiate the overreaches of former FTC Chair Lina Khan’s regime.

To seize this moment, the FTC should pursue an alignment strategy to ensure that its guidance, regulations, and enforcement actions reflect the action plan’s pro-innovation vision, rather than the speculative anti-business theories of the past. In practice, the FTC should:

1. publicly repudiate Khan-era guidance and affirm the pro-competitive benefits of common business practices;
2. use its competition-advocacy tools to push states toward pro-innovation laws;
3. withdraw from its misguided cooperation agreement with European and British regulators; and
4. reevaluate ongoing litigation to ensure alignment with precedent and the action plan’s principles.

At the same time, the White House should broaden the plan’s reach to include the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) and all forms of American innovation.

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