Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is weighing his options for a path out of Donald Trump's administration as controversies continue to plague his short stint as the head of the United States Armed Forces,

The White House was forced to intervene to put an end to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s routine use of polygraph tests on his own staff. According to The Washington Post, a top aide to the Defense chief complained to the White House that he could be subject to a lie detector as Hegseth’s campaign to stamp out the endless Pentagon media leaks raged.