(Reuters) -The White House on Monday denied a report that it has begun searching for a new defense secretary after Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth reportedly shared details of a U.S. attack on Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis on a commercial messaging app. White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said the National Public Radio story on the search was […]
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White House denies report it is searching for new defense secretary
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(Reuters) -The White House on Monday denied a report that it has begun searching for a new defense secretary after Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth reportedly shared details of a U.S. attack on Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis on a commercial messaging app.
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said the National Public Radio story on the search was not true.
“As the President said this morning, he stands strongly behind @SecDef,” she wrote on X.
(Reporting by Costas Pitas; editing by Rami Ayyub and Doina Chiacu)