Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
The Pentagon is facing growing calls for an investigation into conditions aboard
the USS Abraham Lincoln after reports of supply shortages, broken plumbing, and mental health concerns.
The carrier has been at sea for eight months without a port call.
Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego, who served in the Marines, is calling for a bipartisan oversight visit to the ship.
The fact that the military, and especially Pete Hexeth, are just denying this is just ridiculous.
We are able to talk to a lot of these sailors.
We are able to talk to their spouses.
And this is why I think it's important they allow us, a bipartisan group of members of the House and the Senate,
to go and visit these sailors, something that has happened before,
to make sure that we know that they're doing well and that the Secretary of Defense is not lying to us.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the situation on board the ship has been completely misrepresented.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the number of cases of cyclosporiasis across the U.S.
Has reached nearly 14,000.
NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports the CDC is working to confirm an additional 10,000 infections
that have been linked to iceberg lettuce grown in Mexico.
This year's cyclosporiasis outbreak...
Busts past prior records.
Susan Main says that's in part because of the Trump administration's staff cuts across health agencies last year.
Main headed the Food and Drug Administration's Food Safety Division until three years ago.