U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer joined House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in calling for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to be fired following the texting of sensitive plans for a military strike against Yemen's Houthis earlier this month to a group chat that included The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.

“He should be fired. I agree, he should be fired,” the Democratic New York senator told reporters Wednesday afternoon while leaving a press conference event on Social Security.

His leadership counterpart in the House, Jeffries, D-N.Y., sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Tuesday urging the same.

“The so-called Secretary of Defense recklessly and casually disclosed highly sensitive war plans—including the timing of a pending attack, possible strike targets and the weapons to be used—during an unclassified national security group chat that inexplicably included a reporter. His behavior shocks the conscience, risked American lives, and likely violated the law,” Jeffries’ letter reads in part. “Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should be fired immediately.”

Several Democratic members of Congress have called for Hegseth’s firing or resignation as a result of the text chain, as well as National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.

The Atlantic on Wednesday released the entire chat among senior national security officials, conducted over the app Signal, showing that Hegseth provided the exact timings of warplane launches and when bombs would drop — before the men and women flying those attacks against Yemen's Houthis this month on behalf of the United States were airborne. The group chat included Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's director of national intelligence.

Gabbard acknowledged before the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that the texts contained “candid and sensitive” discussions but said again that no classified information was included.

Sen. Roger Wicker, the Mississippi Republican who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he and Sen. Jack Reed, the committee’s top Democrat, will send a letter to the Trump administration requesting an Inspector General investigation.

The Associated Press contributed to this report