WASHINGTON, D.C. (WENY News) -- In some cases, it’s good when plans make it out of the group chat. However, that is most definitely not the case when it comes to a group chat with top national security officials containing highly sensitive information.

Damage control was on display Tuesday following a leak of sensitive information related to U.S. military strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen earlier this month. Republicans are largely defending the Trump administration as it downplays the “inadvertent” leak. Democrats are taking aim at the White House and top administration officials. 

“They’ve acknowledged that there was an error and they're correcting it,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R- LA) on Tuesday. “It's a mistake, but we’ve got to correct it going forward and they will.” 

On Monday, news broke that the editor-in-chief from The Atlantic was accidentally added to a group chat with top members of President Trump’s cabinet on the nongovernment encrypted chat app, Signal. 

According to the Atlantic article detailing the group chat, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz created the conversation with top officials including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Hegseth reportedly sent “operational details" of forthcoming strikes on Yemen. 

“This kind of carelessness is how people get killed. It's how our enemies can take advantage of us. It's how our national security falls into danger,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D- NY).

Democrats blasted the administration Tuesday. Some are demanding Waltz and Hegseth testify before Congress, others are going even further. 

“Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should resign,” said Ted Lieu (D- CA), Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus. “He recklessly texted operational details of military strikes, including time, place, location and sequencing of those strikes to a journalist. Had that information gotten to the Houthis, American pilots could have been shot down. Navy sailors could have been targeted.” 

In a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing Tuesday, Democrats pressed Trump’s top national security officials, including Tulsi Gabbard. 

“You were not TG on this group chat,” asked Sen. Mark Warner (D- VA). 

“I'm not going to get into the specifics,” replied Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence. 

“So you refuse to acknowledge whether you were on this group chat,” Warner asked. 

“Senator, I'm not going to get into the specifics,” Gabbard repeated. 

The White House stressed Tuesday that no classified information was shared in the chat.

“No ‘war plans’ were discussed. No classified material was sent to the thread,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on X. “The Houthi strikes were successful and effective. Terrorists were killed and that’s what matters most to President Trump,” she added.

“... The actions of the current administration is a display of our government officials virtually checking in with one another before an official action was taken, while, by the way, acknowledging that they had been communicating about sensitive and classified information on official secure back channels. While it was a mistake to add a reporter to the group chat without triple checking, I trust President Trump is managing it...,” read part of a statement from Congressman Nick Langworthy (R- NY). 

Senator John Fetterman (D- PA) supports the military strikes but stressed the importance of secure communications earlier today:

“DO: Destroy Iran-backed Houthis. DO NOT: Plan or discuss these plans on unsecured channels. The most lethal U.S. military must also be the most secure,” said Fetterman in a post on the social media platform X.