Congress's failure to act is not neutral. Morgan Lewis documented the state-level enforcement acceleration as a direct consequence of federal passivity [3] — each month of inaction in Washington is a month of precedent-building in Sacramento, Austin, and Albany. The Brookings analysis named the structural problem precisely: no federal body holds cross-sector authority over AI, which means the first mover on any enforcement action will be a state regulator, a foreign agency, or a plaintiff's attorney . That is the governance architecture the United States has chosen by default, and…