Republican puts White House on notice: 'People better get fired' over peace deal 'buffoonery'

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, on Saturday demanded "some people ... get fired" over the fallout from a proposed peace plan to end the war in Ukraine.

Bacon was specifically referring to a statement from State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott, who on Saturday refuted claims made by U.S. senators at a press conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

According to Sens. Angus King (I-ME) and Mike Rounds (R-SD), Secretary of State Marco Rubio distanced the United States from the proposed plan, telling senators the leaked 28-point plan "is not of the administration's position."

The senators cited a phone call from Rubio which "came at their request," Politico reports.

"Rubio, they said, agreed to walk them through the situation and gave the lawmakers permission to describe what he told them," according to Politico.

In a statement on X, King described the plan as "essentially the wish list of the Russians."

"This is blatantly false," Pigott wrote Saturday on X in response to King's tweet. "As Secretary Rubio and the entire administration has consistently maintained, this plan was authored by the United States, with input from both the Russians and Ukrainians."

Responding to Pigott's statement, Bacon called the peace plan fallout "gross buffoonery" and demanded accountability for the saga.

"Some people better get fired on Monday for the gross buffoonery we just witnessed over the last four days," he wrote on X.

"This hurt our country and undermined our alliances, and encouraged our adversaries," Bacon added.

Bacon had previously spoken out against the leaked plan, which Politico reports sparked alarm among lawmakers as "global leaders railed] against it."

"President Trump’s plan to force Ukraine to give up more territory, to cut its Army by more than half, to never join NATO nor let foreign troops in its territory is an abomination," Bacon wrote Friday on X. "Freedom loving Americans must tell the President that we reject the worst appeasement seen since 1938. ... What makes President [Donald] Trump think we can now trust [Russian President Vladimir] Putin? This agreement weakens Ukraine and leaves them vulnerable to new Russian invasions in the years to come."