House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is calling for Congress to investigate top Trump administration officials in the wake of a bombshell revelation that The Atlantic’s top editor was included in a group chat discussion detailing the Pentagon’s plans to strike Yemen.

Jeffries said the details of the breach, outlined by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg on Monday, reveal a “reckless” administration — one stocked with an “unqualified” Cabinet — that poses a threat to national security in the name of defending it.

Congress, he said, has a role in getting to the bottom of the incident.

“There should absolutely be a congressional investigation so that we can understand what happened, why did it happen, and how do we prevent this type of national security breach from ever happening again,” Jeffries told reporters Monday in the Capitol, shortly after The Atlantic piece was published.

“This is reckless, irresponsible and dangerous.”

Jeffries did not mention any of the top officials involved in the breach. But he went after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth without naming him,........

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