Representative John Galamendi (D-Calif) suggested the need for a Secretary of Defense.
“What are you all doing? And why is it happening on a commercial messaging platform? That makes no logical sense and is actually quite hazardous,” Galamendi expressed during a News Nation segment on Tuesday.
“And you chose to take the Secretary of Defense and demonstrate that, perhaps due to his own personal shortcomings, he had something critical to share with other teenagers discussing this.”
The remarks from the California congressman responded to a report by Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
Multiple Democrats called on both Heggs and national security adviser Mike Waltz to resign over the inconsistency. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) sent a letter to the White House on Tuesday, urging President Trump to dismiss the Secretary of Defense.
“It’s as if a group of senior national security officials and others at the top of the national security initiative congregate like a bunch of teenagers chatting about school dances and football matches,” Galamendi said in an interview with Laura Ingle on News Nation.
Nonetheless, Hegseth refuted the claims that war plans were unintentionally disclosed.
“No one texted the war plan, and that’s all I have to comment on it,” Heggs told reporters on Monday.
For a considerable time, Galamendi has challenged Hegses’ capability to oversee the Department of Defense and initiated a probe into the leader’s decision to expand medical units in Guantanamo Bay, where the Trump administration aimed to retain undocumented immigrants.
“Regrettably, this administration appears to be more focused on enforcing their extreme political agenda and enriching their billionaire allies than on safeguarding American taxpayers and our national security,” the lawmaker told Hill in February.
