House Democrats are asking the White House for President Donald Trump’s AI chatbot conversations, first reported by Cnet. The lawmakers argue the prompts and replies should be public records, while raising security concerns about privately operated AI in foreign-policy decisions and asking who can access the data those systems handle.
Reps. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, and Robert Garcia, a California Democrat, made the request in a joint letter. They argue the prompts and replies should count as public records under the 1978 Presidential Records Act, and allege Trump consulted Grok, but not Congress, about military deployment to Venezuela.
Raskin and Garcia cite public reporting that Trump spent multiple hours prompting Grok in December 2025 about how Venezuelans might respond to Nicolás Maduro’s capture, weeks before the military operation and arrest. They also cite a case in which officials preparing to intercept a Chinese vessel in the Middle East discovered that an intelligence report’s author had relied on an AI chatbot and misidentified cargo alleged to be components for a nuclear weapons program.
Separately, a January executive summary of a General Services Administration report, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, concluded that xAI’s Grok did not meet safety and alignment expectations required for general federal use and may pose a security risk in classified settings.
The request joins two issues: presidential recordkeeping and control of data handled by privately operated AI systems. Raskin and Garcia ask whether the White House restricts classified information from chatbot use and whether vendors, subcontractors or other outside parties can access prompts, outputs, logs or metadata.
The Pentagon said in a sworn statement that xAI’s latest models enabled US forces to deploy over 2,000 munitions to target 2,000 different locations within 96 hours during Operation Epic Fury, the US campaign against Iran. The lawmakers requested a full description of Trump’s personal AI use and a closed-door briefing on the administration’s AI protocols and cybersecurity safeguards by Nov. 11.