WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 -- Sen. Chris Coons issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, issued the following statement after the Department of Defense's Inspector General issued an investigation report on Secretary Hegseth's careless use of Signal to communicate troop movements:

"The DOD Inspector General has concluded that Secretary Hegseth violated DOD procedure and put service members' lives at risk with his reckless mishandling of sensitive information. In March, I led a group of senators in pressing the Trump administration to investigate this blatant misconduct. Any service member who acted with such disregard for our national security would b...