A veterans group renewed its public support of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after a report that it had “all but gone silent” amid his involvement in an online chat controversy.

The White House on Tuesday backed Hegseth for the second straight day after allegations that he used the Signal messaging app on his personal smartphone to detail classified information about airstrikes on Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist targets in Yemen with his wife, brother, and attorney.

Earlier in the day, Hegseth said “informal, unclassified coordinations” were shared in an online chat and he added that an internal probe into leakers at the Pentagon continues.

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