Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican, defended her staff on Wednesday after a screenshot of legislative text went viral for including the words “Claude responded.” The natural assumption online was that the bill was written using AI, but Luna denied it. Kind of.
The text in question turned out to be a bill summary for the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, and it seems pretty clear that Anthropic’s Claude was used, with everything just copied and pasted from the chatbot:
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) Used Anthropic’s Claude AI Chatbot to Draft Amendment to Defense Bill pic.twitter.com/Ls9oK26M8W
— NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) June 24, 2026
At first, Luna responded to the viral tweet with what seemed like an admission that her staff uses it to “correct” legislation, though it wasn’t clear how extensive these corrections might be.
“Yeah my staff used AI to correct a draft text and didn’t edit,” tweeted Luna. “Not a shocker. Most staff use it. I have told them to make sure they are double checking and more thorough. What dork planted this story? Btw love Claude but Grok is way more savage.”
But that tweet was deleted. Seemingly, because Luna had admitted that AI was used to write the actual text of the bill.
Luna then sent another tweet with different wording: “Yeah my staff used AI to spell/grammar check the amendment SUMMARY, not the actual amendment text itself. Not a shocker. Most staff use it. I have told them to make sure they are double checking and more thorough. What dork planted this story? Btw love Claude but Grok is way more savage.”
The follow-up tweet, as you can see, made it more explicit that Claude was only used to correct a summary of the amendment, not the amendment itself. But it defies common sense that people who use AI for summaries wouldn’t also use AI chatbots to write bills.
In another tweet, Luna tried to adopt a tone of ridicule, as though the people who noticed the AI usage were being stupid and hysterical: “FYI NO Legislation is ever drafted with AI. All bill text from the House comes from the House Legislative Council which is prohibited from using AI. The screenshot you’re referencing is an AI summary of the bill that’s also used for spellcheck, cmon man”
But if you were to ask the average American whether members of Congress should be using AI to craft legislation, it’s a safe bet many people would be skeptical. After all, just 16% of American adults believe AI will positively impact society, according to the latest polling from Pew Research.
Handing over the power to legislate to Claude, or any other chatbot for that matter, seems like a really dystopian idea. Nobody wants Skynet to write our laws.
Luna is known as one of President Donald Trump’s fiercest defenders, but also one of the odder Republicans on Capitol Hill. The congresswoman appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast last year to proclaim that aliens might actually be “interdimensional beings.” And among her defenses of AI editing on Wednesday, she also found time to insist that the Democratic Party is “anti-white and wants to re-distribute your wealth.”
She’s solidly MAGA through and through.
