AI Standards & Health Care on Capitol Hill 12/12/25

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The morning after President Trump signed an executive order for a national AI regulatory standard, the White House’s senior policy advisor on AI Sriram Krishnan explains the administration’s AI agenda. Senator Dave McCormick (R-Pennsylvania) discusses both AI legislation and the health care battle underway in the Senate, just weeks before ACA subsidies expire. Plus, President Trump may sign an executive order to reclassify marijuana, and AI tech stocks are sliding. Eamon Javers - 9:55 Sen. Dave McCormick - 18:19 Sriram Krishnan - 33:08 In this episode: Sriram Krishnan, @sriramk Dave McCormick, @SenMcCormickPA Eamon Javers, @eamonjavers Michael Santoli, @michaelsantoli Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin

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0:00.0	Bring in show music, please.
0:03.0	This is Squawk Pod, and I'm CNBC producer Cameron Costa.
0:08.6	On today's episode, President Trump has signed an executive order to impose one national standard for AI regulation, and it limits state power.
0:19.5	We'll hear from senior White House policy advisor on AI, Shrearim
0:23.8	Krishnan. So we'll be working with Congress in the coming weeks and months to make sure that
0:28.9	is a single national framework which makes sure we can win this race. Republican Senator Dave
0:36.2	McCormick of Pennsylvania is also on board with limiting patchwork regulation,
0:40.3	but he's focused on another policy battle brewing, one for healthcare.
0:45.3	Our longevity, our lifespan, infant mortality is terrible relative to other developed countries,
0:51.3	and still 25 million people don't have access to health care.
1:01.0	Plus, a bright day for marijuana might be coming and a look at investor's sentiment heading into the new year.
1:01.8	We're gone from the AI trade to the GDP trade.
1:05.8	It's Friday, December 12th, 2025, and SquawkPod begins right now.
1:11.9	Stand Becky by in three, two, one.
1:14.8	Cure, please.
1:16.9	Good morning, everybody.
1:18.3	Welcome to Squackbox right here on CNBC.
1:20.9	I'm Becky Quick along with Andrew Ross Sorkin and Mike Santoli.
1:24.4	Joe is off today.
1:26.2	It's Friday, guys.
1:27.4	We made it. Woo! Yay, guys. We made it. Yay for us.
1:30.3	Almost.
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