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Democratic leaders of key House committees are reigniting calling for National Security Advisor Mike Waltz to step down.
Just seven days after the Signal chat scandal erupted, the White House announced that it doesn’t want to talk about it anymore. In fact, it was Monday when press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that, as far as she and her colleagues are concerned, “this case has been closed.”
The White House has fired multiple administration officials, including at least three National Security Council staffers, three sources familiar with the move told CNN.
The White House considers the Signal chat leak case "closed," press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the media Monday.
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Trump administration officials are struggling to stem the fallout from revelations that top national security officials discussed sensitive attack plans over a messaging app and mistakenly added a journalist to the chain.
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The Trump administration sought to put the scandal over its use of the Signal messaging app behind it on Monday, calling it case closed, even as the breach provoked bipartisan criticism and opened up divisions inside the White House.
The White House has said it will use real eggs in its annual Easter Egg Roll, despite historically high prices and a shortage that the industry is blaming on the latest outbreak of the avian flu.