{"id":37035,"date":"2025-03-26T12:06:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T12:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/jeffries-becomes-highest-ranking-dem-to-call-for-hegseth-to-resign\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:06:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T12:06:44","slug":"jeffries-becomes-highest-ranking-dem-to-call-for-hegseth-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/jeffries-becomes-highest-ranking-dem-to-call-for-hegseth-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries becomes highest-ranking Dem to call for Hegseth to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is now the highest-ranking Democrat to call for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth<\/a> to resign over the Signal text chain leak, writing a letter to President Donald Trump demanding that he be “fired immediately.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Pete Hegseth is the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in American history. His continued presence in the top position of leadership at the Pentagon<\/a> threatens the nation\u2019s security and puts our brave men and women in uniform throughout the world in danger,” the Democrat from New York said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The so-called Secretary of Defense recklessly and casually disclosed highly sensitive war plans — including the timing of a pending attack, possible strike targets and the weapons to be used –during an unclassified national security group chat that inexplicably included a reporter. His behavior shocks the conscience, risked American lives and likely violated the law,” Jeffries continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should be fired immediately,” he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

HEGSETH FENDS OFF REPORTER\u2019S QUESTIONS OVER SIGNAL CHAT LEAK<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hegseth on Tuesday fended off a reporter\u2019s questions about the leaked Signal chat group allegedly involving Trump administration officials discussing forthcoming strikes on the Houthis in Yemen. The strikes then happened on March 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, said officials were discussing “war plans,” but he decided not to publish some of the highly sensitive information he saw, including precise information about weapons packages, targets and timing, due to potential threats to national security and military operations. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The secretary repeated his claims that “nobody was texting war plans,” pushing back on Goldberg’s assertion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

TRUMP SAYS WALTZ DOESN\u2019T NEED TO APOLOGIZE OVER SIGNAL TEXT CHAIN LINK<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

“As I also stated yesterday, nobody\u2019s texting war plans, and that\u2019s all I have to say about that,” Hegseth said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I know exactly what I\u2019m doing, exactly what we\u2019re directing, and I\u2019m really proud of what we accomplished, the successful missions that night and going forward,” he also said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called for national security advisor Mike Waltz<\/a> and Hegseth to resign Tuesday during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump told Fox News he has no plans to fire Waltz.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News\u2019 Landon Mion contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is now the highest-ranking Democrat to call for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to resign over the Signal text chain leak, writing a letter to President Donald Trump demanding that he be “fired immediately.”\u00a0 “Pete Hegseth is the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in American history. His continued presence in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}