{"id":7659,"date":"2025-03-25T22:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T22:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jeffries-calls-for-firing-hegseth-over-war-plans-group-chat\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T22:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T22:20:24","slug":"jeffries-calls-for-firing-hegseth-over-war-plans-group-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jeffries-calls-for-firing-hegseth-over-war-plans-group-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries calls for firing Hegseth over war plans group chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to be fired over using a group Signal chat to discuss war plans. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His behavior shocks the conscience, risked American lives and likely violated the law,&#8221; Jeffries said in a Tuesday letter to President Donald Trump. &#8220;Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should be fired immediately.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Hegseth and other top national security officials had used the unsecured group chat to discuss plans to bomb Houthi rebels in Yemen and had inadvertently added a journalist, sparking the imbroglio. Some of those officials had faced pointed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/03\/25\/intel-chiefs-squirm-in-senate-spotlight-amid-signal-chat-debacle-00004360\" target=\"_blank\">questioning from Hill Democrats<\/a> on Tuesday, and the minority party has sought to capitalize on the damaging revelations stemming from the incident. <\/p>\n<p>Jeffries&#8217; letter follows calls from other Democrats for the officials to step down. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarkWarner\/status\/1904535761304576311\" target=\"_blank\">said Tuesday<\/a> that both Hegseth and national security adviser Mike Waltz should resign. But top Hill Republicans like Speaker Mike Johnson have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/03\/24\/congress\/mike-johnson-signal-chat-mistake-houthi-strike-00246179\" target=\"_blank\">backed Hegseth<\/a> and the other Trump officials amid the debacle, with Johnson telling reporters Tuesday that it was a &#8220;mistake&#8221; but wouldn&#8217;t happen again. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to be fired over using a group Signal chat to discuss war plans. &#8220;His behavior shocks the conscience, risked American lives and likely violated the law,&#8221; Jeffries said in a Tuesday letter to President Donald Trump. &#8220;Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should be fired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}