The instability Hegseth is accused of bringing to the Pentagon is also said to be a factor in his failure to inform the White House that he’d stopped Ukraine’s arms shipment: He has no chief of staff, is having a hard time finding one, and lacks senior advisers who might have been able to prevent the fiasco.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) called on President Trump to fire Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after a new CNN report. Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week,