A leaked file urging high House Democrats to go to warfare with Elon Musk, Apple and other company giants has earned the scorn of occasion insiders – with some griping that the doc is a sloppy, AI-influenced mess, The Post has discovered.
Authored by progressive think tank Groundwork Collaborative, the 181-page file outlines a plan to go after “politically corrupt corporate targets” with public hearings and subpoenas when Democrats take control of Congress early next yr.
The Washington Sun, which first reported on the file this week, said Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees have been “reviewing” the file while crafting their agenda.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on May 30, 2025. Getty Images
That’s despite the truth that the model circulating on the Hill is riddled with typos, modifying notes, half-finished sections and informal references to Groundwork staffers. At least 83 sections of the file seem to be at least partially AI-generated, according to the outcomes of a Pangram review supplied to The Post.
In one significantly embarrassing blunder, pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly is named as a potential investigation goal, even though a part on “how Eli Lilly makes health care more expensive” only says “TK.” Elsewhere, a part tacked on close to the finish of the file is titled “Blank Template” and seems to have been left in by mistake.
The goofs have led some DC sources who spoke to The Post to dismiss it as unserious or even counterproductive to the Democratic occasion’s objectives.
The file “doesn’t seem like a real polished proposal to the Hill,” according to one Ok Street lobbyist acquainted with the doc who spoke to The Post on situation of anonymity.
“I’ve not heard from any folks on the Hill who are utilizing this to put together their agenda on oversight,” the lobbyist added. “It seems like a lot of this might have been made with AI, and I would hope that anyone putting something like this together would not put together a product like that, with obvious AI input on it.”
The Democrats’ “blue tsunami” in the midterms has fueled some panic on Wall Street, with traders fretting that a Congressional crackdown will jam up the AI industry just as firms like OpenAI and Meta are spending billions on a nationwide AI infrastructure buildout.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, seems at an occasion. Bloomberg via Getty Images
Apple, Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX, Amazon and Oracle are all named as targets, according to a copy of the file obtained by The Post. Other named entities embody Ticketmaster and its mother or father Live Nation, Paramount, GEO Group, World Liberty Financial, Trump Media, Intuit, the “nursing home industry” and power firms, including the fossil fuel industry.
One present Hill aide, who spoke to The Post on situation of anonymity, expressed concern that the rushed memo would only complicate efforts to examine firms who are inflicting hurt to shoppers.
“It’s shocking that anyone would send such an unserious mess,” the aide instructed The Post.
Representatives for Raskin and Rep. Robert Garcia, the rating Democratic member on the House Oversight Committee, did not return requests for remark.
Groundwork is led by govt director Lindsey Owens, who previously served as a senior financial coverage adviser to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
Rep. Jamie Raskin speaks about the US midterm elections at a Center for American Progress Action Fund occasion in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026. REUTERS
The file notes that a potential probe into egg firms that contributed to an affordability disaster may not be the proper political transfer. “Trump’s DOJ ultimately brought this case to light, so it may not be as useful for Democrats to champion this as other corporations,” the file says.
When reached for remark, Groundwork senior vice president Alex Jacquez said the file is a “living document” that was not supposed for public consumption, but rather as a compilation of inner analysis to help Democratic committees that are going to be stretched skinny. The errors and TKs in the doc have since been corrected, he added.
Jacquez also denied that Groundwork relied on AI to write the file, noting that the nonprofit’s own Pangram report confirmed that it was 97% human-written and asserting that it had taken “hundreds of hours” of employees labor over the last six months. At the same time, he acknowledged that staffers used AI while conducting analysis.
“We are fully in service of getting the Democratic caucus in the House and the Senate everything they need to deliver what people said that they wanted on Tuesday – which is relief from crushing high prices and a stop to the corruption that enables this ripoff,” Jacquez said. “They believe the system is rigged and we need to unrig it.”
Apple CEO John Ternus speaks during a product launch occasion in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026. CHRIS TORRES/EPA/Shutterstock
The doc is riddled with “TKs” – a shorthand used by editors to point out sentences that need to be stuffed in by the creator – such as “How TK Company Makes Consumer Goods More Expensive.”
One part outlining analysis on “corporate wrongdoing targets” contains a caveat noting it is “not exhaustive and not yet complete.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin, the rating Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, appeared to distance himself from the file in a assertion to the Washington Sun.
“We’re not targeting particular corporations,” Raskin instructed the outlet. “We’re targeting systems and networks of corruption, and to the extent corporations are involved, they are subject to the oversight project of Congress and our subpoena authority like everyone else.”
The part marked “Blank Template” comprises instructions on how to define grievances against specific firms and online buying firm Instacart used as an instance.
Elon Musk is one of the major targets listed in the Dem file. REUTERS
“This is disappointing to see days after a big Democratic win,” one former Hill staffer said. “Oversight staff will need help given the scale of the work that needs doing. AI slop for headlines isn’t helping.”
As The Washington Sun famous, some Democrats are involved that the occasion dangers repeating previous errors by going overboard concentrating on particular person firms – such as when the Biden administration’s adversarial relationship with company America led many CEOs to embrace President Trump.
Groundwork’s file chosen targets based mostly in half on whether they’ve fostered close ties to Trump, such as by making donations to his White House ballroom, and whether they acquired advantages in the kind of tax breaks or looser rules.
It outlines particular Congressional investigations that should be pursued. One would take tech CEOs to activity over “the cost of data centers to American households,” and suggests concentrating on Musk, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and other key tech executives.
Another would grill Musk and Palantir boss Alex Karp over claims that they “paid $0 in federal income tax on billions in US profits in 2025.”
The Sun’s report said the file has been reviewed by “[Sen. Elizabeth] Warren, the heads of the House Democratic caucus, party leadership, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and a half-dozen chiefs of staff for incoming senators.”
Nonetheless, some insiders stay skeptical that the doc will really play much of a position in shaping the occasion’s agenda.
“My clients are certainly preparing for oversight after the elections – they were preparing for it before the elections – but I’m not concerned that this document is what’s driving the congressional agenda,” the Ok Street lobbyist added.