Hegseth’s Signal Scandal Is Wearing on Trump Officials

Sen. Mike Rounds told NOTUS that he expects “somebody got taken to the woodshed” for the Signal controversy.

Pete Hegseth
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s standing with some in the administration is on thin ice as top officials have grown tired of the secretary’s stream of controversies, two sources close to the White House told NOTUS.

Hegseth went to the White House for a meeting Thursday, one day after The Washington Post reported that information he sent on Signal came from a classified email system, a source familiar with the defense secretary’s schedule said.

Hegseth was previously scheduled to travel to two bases in Georgia but canceled in order to attend the meeting at the White House, the Pentagon confirmed.