As Trump's defense secretary, Hegseth has come under fire for various reasons, including once saying that women should not be in combat roles and for his part in accidentally sharing what may have been classified military intelligence via a Signal group chat with the editor-in-chief of the political magazine The Atlantic.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted on social media Tuesday that he had dismantled a program supporting women on security teams, an initiative that he called “woke” but actually was signed into