If anything this seems like a contemptuously lazy use of reverse psychology. They have to know how the most conspiracy brained people on Earth will recieve an official "nothing to see here" from the Pentagon, right?
“I’m sure she has other chief priorities, as do we, which is why we continue to urge Congress to complete the passage of a budget and our supplemental request so we can move the ball down field and across the goal line in support of critical national security priorities,” Singh said.
"I'm only gonna do this interview if you let me beg for money"
This is gonna be incredibly funny when they inevitably break up and he becomes irrelevant like every single one of her exes. Even the deep state struggles to keep her satisfied