The House of Representatives passed a rule on April 29 to block Democrat-led inquiries about the Trump administration’s use of the application Signal, which has been used to discuss sensitive information.
The tally was along party lines, 216–208.
Democrats have been seeking answers about Trump administration officials, such as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, using Signal, an app that allows for encrypted messages to be sent.
Senior administration officials such as Hegseth used it to communicate about U.S. military strikes in Yemen against the Houthis.
That was first reported by Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, who appeared to be accidentally added to a group chat in Signal featuring Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, and other top administration officials as the United States took out Houthi terrorists and infrastructure last month….