Trump Live Admin Updates: Legislators to go to Salvador in the middle of the combat deportation
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth used a second signal cat to discuss the air strikes last month in Yemen, his wife, brother and personal lawyer, ABC News said on Sunday.
In response, Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois called him on Sunday to “resign in disgrace” in a statement.
“How many times Pete Hegseth needs to disclose classified information before Donald Trump and the Republicans understand that he is not only a liar, he is a threat to our national security?” Said Duckworth.
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth meets the Minister of Defense of Salvador René Merino Monroy at Pentagon in Washington on April 16, 2025.
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Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the best democrat of the Senate Armed Services Committee, also published a statement on Sunday, saying that he had a serious concerns about the capacity of the Hegseth secretary to maintain the confidence and confidence of the American soldiers and the Commander -in -Chief. “
Reed called the Inspector General’s Ministry of Defense Bureau to include this incident in his current investigation into HegSeth processing classified information.
“If it is true, this incident is another disturbing example of the unpredictor of the Hegseth secretary for the laws and protocols that all the other soldiers are required to follow. He must immediately explain why he would have sent classified information that could endanger the life of the American soldiers on a commercial application which included his wife, his brother and his personal lawyer,” said Reed.
-Abc News’ Allison Pecorin
