March 27, 2025
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FROM SENATE MINORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER:
• Monday, it was reported that classified war plans were leaked by the Secretary of Defense over unsecured text messages.
• Today, I wrote a letter, with top Senate Democrats, to President Trump and Secretary Hegseth, demanding they release the full, unredacted transcript of all texts in their signal chats.
• For the Defense Secretary to coordinate war plans in such a haphazard and dangerous way puts our national security, our troops, and every single American at risk. They intentionally put highly classified information on an unclassified device.
• I am calling for a bipartisan investigation in the Senate of this mishandling. I am also calling for the Defense I.G. to fully investigate. This is too serious not to know exactly what happened, why it happened, and how to prevent it from ever happening again.
• It is alarming – alarming – that Director Gabbard refused to answer repeated questioning on whether or not she was using her personal phone.
• When Pete Hegseth came before the Senate as a nominee, Democrats warned that something like this could happen.
• These people, Secretary Hegseth, and so many others, are clearly not up for the job. We warned that confirming them was dangerous, that they would behave recklessly.
• Pete Hegseth should be fired.
