President Donald Trump “stands strongly behind Pete Hegseth,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday morning, telling Fox News that the mounting criticism of the scandal-plagued Defense secretary is “what happens when the entire Pentagon is working against you.”

Hegseth “is doing phenomenal leading the Pentagon,” Leavitt said during a Monday “Fox & Friends” appearance. “This is what happens when the entire Pentagon is working against you and working against the monumental change you are trying to implement.”

The New York Times reported Sunday that Hegseth shared sensitive information about military action in Yemen in a private chat on the Signal app that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer — the second reported instance of the secretary sharing operational plans in an unclassified chat.

The Pentagon’s former top spokesperson — who stepped down last week — also recently bashed the Pentagon leader for plunging the department into chaos.