The administration's AI framework does double work: it tells states to stand down and tells industry that the federal government is the only regulator it needs to manage. A commenter summarized the logic directly — the framework "signals to AI firms + Wall St that Trump intends to preempt state regulation" [5] — identifying the document's primary audience as investors and firms, not legislators. The DOJ litigation task force and the Commerce Department's evaluation of "burdensome" state laws are the enforcement instruments behind that signal. Whether those instruments reach their…