Additionally, the suspension of the weapons shipment was hardly a secret and was widely reported by the country’s major news outlets as it broke. Trump had almost a week to countermand the decision, yet the Pentagon only reversed course after the President’s initial comments during Monday night’s dinner with Netanyahu.

Donald Trump's Pentagon is in disarray as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's top policy chief has gone rogue, blindsiding White House officials and foreign allies with unauthorized foreign policy decisions that have sent shockwaves through the administration,

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a dramatic acceleration of the Pentagon's drone programme, with three new test sites to be established within 90 days

When President Donald Trump searched for his top Cabinet secretaries, a flair for running a smooth governing machine was nowhere on the job description. So rising frustration among White House aides about chaos coming from the offices of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi seems a bit rich.

It’s not just Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth who’s apparently causing turmoil in the White House. Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s top policy chief under Hegseth, has blindsided senior administration officials and foreign allies alike with a series of rapid-fire foreign policy moves,

Republican senators may have confirmed Pete Hegseth as the nation’s 29th defense secretary, but as Pentagon scandals keep stacking up, powerful U.S. senators are refusing to even discuss the embattled military leader.

Last week, reportedly without consulting the White House, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth unilaterally approved the decision to halt critical weapons shipments to Ukraine, which has been the target of increased attacks in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s illegal war against the sovereign nation.

As CNN reports, Hegseth’s rogue move led to chaos in the White House, with the Trump administration frantically trying to figure out why the weapons shipments had been stopped—then having to justify the action to both Congress and the Ukrainian government.