White House pushes back at war plans group chat story

The White House on Tuesday sought to downplay the significance of a journalist being added to a group chat of administration officials discussing plans for attacks against Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt argued in a post on X that no “war plans” were discussed in the chat on the Signal app, echoing comments on Monday night from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. She also asserted that no classified material was sent to the thread.

Jeffrey Goldberg, the...