California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order accelerating implementation of the state's independent AI oversight laws (SB 813 and AB 1405), directing state agencies to convene experts on further measures including a frontier-model "kill switch," citing the Hugging Face attack as a motivating incident. He called on Speaker Mike Johnson to return from recess and pass national legislation modeled on California's framework, saying California will continue to act if Congress does not.
Why we used this label
Newsom endorses it directly, both through his own state action and by explicitly calling on Congress, naming Speaker Johnson, to pass comparable federal legislation. That places him with the same week's cluster of Democratic officials making this argument: Jeffries (985), Ansari (988), Crow (995), Shapiro (1011) and Pritzker (1013). The closest competing label is condemns, since the statement criticizes Trump and Congress as "asleep at the wheel"; that loses because the criticism is that they have failed to enact safeguards Newsom supports, which endorses the proposition. Unlike Shapiro and Pritzker, Newsom's statement is backed by an actual executive order and existing state law (SB 53, SB 813, AB 1405) rather than a stated aspiration alone.
