Pete Buttigieg demands Trump fire Waltz after war plan ‘screw-up’

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Pete Buttigieg is pressing President Donald Trump to punish national security adviser Mike Waltz for his “screw-up” of including the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, in a group chat in which war plans were being discussed.

The former transportation secretary demanded “accountability” after Goldberg was added to a group chat between Walz, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other high-level Trump administration officials in which they discussed bombing Houthi targets in Yemen.

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