Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week, according to five sources familiar with the matter, setting off a scramble inside the administration to understand why the halt was implemented and explain it to Congress and the Ukrainian government.

A recent CNN report revealed that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not inform the White House before deciding to temporarily suspend certain arms shipments to Ukraine. The move caught top officials by surprise,

Trump was unhappy to find out about the Pentagon chief’s controversial decision, which the president quickly reversed after a high-stakes meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The Trump administration has resumed sending some weapons to Ukraine, a week after the Pentagon had directed that some deliveries be paused

Days after he ordered the Pentagon to reverse a pause on shipments of American-made weapons to Ukraine amid ongoing Russian aerial attacks, President Donald Trump claims to have no idea who gave the order to cut off munitions deliveries to the key U.