House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has called on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to be “fired immediately” in a letter to Donald Trump over Hegseth and other senior administration officials’ use of Signal messages to relay possible classified information.
Jeffries isn’t alone in the caucus wanting Hegseth out. A group of Democratic House military veterans on Tuesday called for his resignation.
“Secretary Hegseth, with how he is handling this, clearly has no honor, has no sense of duty and has absolutely zero accountability for his own actions,” said Rep. Seth Moulton, who also called for Joe Biden’s defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, to resign last year.