Tesla CEO and Trump administration ally Elon Musk expressed disbelief Saturday regarding a GOP proposal to reshape the U.S. military in an “unprecedented” fashion, going as far as to flag his own generative artificial intelligence chatbot for verification.
“Congress is hiding the U.S.-Israel military relationship in the defense bill,” wrote Democratic congressional candidate Ethan Wechtaluk in a social media post on X. “There is a second bill that goes further. It makes it law that a president can't pull intelligence sharing back without clearing a legal hurdle, even if you elect one who wants to.”
Wechtaluk was referring to a provision buried within the House Republicans’ defense budget proposal for fiscal year 2027, a memorandum that would “fuse the U.S. and Israeli defense sectors in multiple areas” in an “unprecedented” manner and integrate the Israeli military with the United States’ more so than “with any other country in the world,” the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft reported recently.
Wechtaluk also flagged a separate bill sponsored by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) that would prohibit the United States from suspending, reducing or limiting aspects of U.S.-Israeli intelligence and security cooperation arrangements “except on the basis of a specific and identifiable national security concern determined by the President.”
Musk, who spent $290 million “of his own money” to support President Donald Trump and Republicans in 2024 – and at least another $73 million in 2025 – appeared to be in disbelief at Wechtaluk’s claim.
“Is this accurate?” Musk wrote in a response to Wechtaluk’s social media post, while also tagging his own chatbot known as Grok.
“Yes, accurate on the key facts,” reads the written response from the Grok chatbot.
Is this accurate? @grok
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 6, 2026
