Yes, it was designed to give plausible deniability. So it's not explicitly a "national ID system", it's just a system of uniform standards for identification ca

Yes, it was designed to give plausible deniability. So it's not explicitly a "national ID system", it's just a system of uniform standards for identification cards across all the national territories with ubiquitous data sharing overseen by a federal agency... but it's "independently" implemented by the states, which could freely choose not to implement it at the cost of locking their citizens out of every federally-run program like, say, flying on a plane.