Sen. Adam Schiff says Pete Hegseth should testify on Starlink slowdown in Ukraine

Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should testify before the Senate on the Starlink satellite limitations that disrupted Ukrainian military operations.

If Democrats retake the Senate, Schiff told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker, “Defense Secretary Hegseth should be brought in. Anyone who has knowledge of what happened.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on “Meet the Press” last week that the Ukrainian government believed the decision to limit Starlink came from the U.S. government. Zelenskyy said at the time that “it was the message from American government to limit this speed, and technically SpaceX did it.”

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that President Donald Trump called Musk and asked him to lift his company’s satellite service restrictions.

Ukraine said Saturday that Starlink and Starshield, its military network, were working at high speeds again. Last week, the systems were disrupted, and Ukraine said the disruptions made it harder to intercept incoming Russian attacks.

“You’ve got the president saying one thing, you’ve got Elon Musk saying another thing, you have them both saying different things at different times,” Schiff said. “Somebody is lying here. Maybe they’re all lying in different ways…

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