US: Prominent Republican lawmaker calls for sack of defense secretary, Hegseth over second leak

A prominent Republican on the House armed services committee, Don Bacon of Nebraska, has joined the call for the sack of the US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth.

The lawmaker told Politico that the chaos at the defense department is reigniting Republicans’ fears about his leadership abilities.

He said, “I’m not in the White House, and I’m not going to tell the White House how to manage this but I find it unacceptable, and I wouldn’t tolerate it if I was in charge.”

Meanwhile the NBC has reported that some minutes before US fighter jets took off to begin strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen in March, army general Michael ...
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