Democrats Turn up Heat on Hegseth, Waltz Over War Plan Leak

March 25, 2025, 9:01 PM UTC

House Democrats ramped up their criticism of Trump administration defense officials for sharing war plans over Signal, calling Tuesday for a bipartisan congressional investigation into what happened.

At a hastily called press conference in the Capitol, they seized on a widely-shared story by The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, who detailed how he was accidentally added to a planning group chat where officials including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Vice President JD Vance shared plans for an upcoming military strikes in Yemen. The White House dismissed concerns over the leak as sensationalism, but Democrats and some Republicans ...

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