An Oregon senator called for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ’s resignation or removal Thursday after a Pentagon report concluded Hegseth put U.S. troops at risk by sharing plans about an impending military strike via a messaging app on his personal phone.

“This report sends a really clear signal: Hegseth — who never should have been nominated — needs to resign or be removed,” Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., posted to X on Thursday afternoon.

A Pentagon inspector general’s report found that Hegseth had the authority to declassify the material he shared through the Signal app in March about plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen. But the report said the release still violated Pentagon rules about the handling of sensitive information.

“If this information had fallen into the hands of U

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