Hegseth faces growing scrutiny over Signalgate and strikes against alleged narcotics-smuggling vessels in the Caribbean.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dealt with two controversies this week, as Democrats demand his resignation and Republicans leave his fate with President Trump. Hegseth came under fire after The Washington Post reported that he ordered the military to “kill everybody” on a drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean on Sept.

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth was already facing questions for his role in the September 2 strikes on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean. Then on Thursday, a Pentagon report dropped that says he risked a United States bombing mission in Yemen when he shared classified plans on Signal.

The Controversial Democratic lawmaker has vowed he is "not going away" despite threats made against him.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has boasted about his department’s latest fatal strike on a suspected drug vessel in an online post with a Charlie Kirk producer. Andrew Kolvet, a staffer at Turning Point USA,

Republican Rep. Don Bacon said that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should leave his post if it's confirmed that he was involved in the decision to conduct a second strike against survivors of a first attack against an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean.

The newspaper said the rules violate the Constitution's freedom of speech and due process provisions, since they give Hegseth the power to determine on his own whether a reporter should be banned.

Hegseth said the strikes were intended to be "lethal, kinetic strikes."

Leon Panetta says investigating critics such as Mark Kelly is a ‘sign of weakness.’

The hosts of The View harshly criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the White House for shifting blame to Admiral Frank M. Bradley over a controversial second military strike on alleged drug traffickers near Venezuela.