Democrats had a resounding reaction to Thursday’s news that national security adviser Mike Waltz was out of a job after he accidentally added a journalist to a group chat discussing highly sensitive national security matters: What about Pete Hegseth?

“What the hell? And Hegseth gets to stay?” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) posted on social media about the defense secretary, a former Fox News personality.

Waltz may have been the one to add Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to the Signal group chat at the center of the scandal, but Hegseth was arguably a bigger part of what made the chat such a national security issue. The defense secretary texted the group detailed information about planned strikes in Yemen, including information that adversaries could have “used to harm American military and intelligence personnel,” Goldberg noted in March.

And weeks later, reports emerged that Hegseth was sharing similar details in a personal group chat with his wife, brother and other members of his inner circle.

“Who really needs to go is Hegseth ... because of his absolute careless treatment of this kind of information,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) told HuffPost. “I would dare him to go to [Naval Station] Norfolk and explain that this didn’t put sailors ... lives in danger.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) also brought up the second group chat in a post on social media.

“Pete Hegseth shows real leadership by passing the blame to Mike Waltz,” she wrote. “Was it Waltz who set up Signal on Hegseth’s office computer and added his wife, brother, and lawyer in a war plan group chat?”

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, agreed Hegseth is putting the whole scandal on Waltz.

“The person who really should go is the secretary of Defense. He should be fired, literally before the end of the day. Mike Waltz, I think, is the fall guy here,” he told reporters.

“This entire national security establishment of the Trump administration is a clown show except they’re playing with real guns and bullets,” he added. “We should be very afraid.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) also told reporters that “they’re firing the wrong guy,” but President Donald Trump is “in a bubble” when it comes to decision-making.

Former CIA Director John Brennan, who served under President Barack Obama, offered up a possibly reason for Waltz leaving over Hegseth.

“It’s easy to replace a national security adviser because it’s not Senate-confirmed,” he said Thursday on MSNBC. “It’s easy to oust him and put someone in, including a deputy, right away

HuffPost’s Igor Bobic contributed reporting.