President Donald Trump confirmed that multiple employees within the National Security Council were fired Thursday, adding to National Security Advisor Mike Waltz's recent political woes that have snowballed since Democrats first slammed him over March's Signal chat leak.

Questions are once again being raised about Mike Waltz, after reports claimed he made at least 20 Signal chat groups to discuss sensitive security decisions.

President Donald Trump's administration officials have used over 20 Signal chats to give updates on various crises worldwide, according to a new report. Politico reported Wednesday that the practice of setting up Signal chats to discuss highly sensitive national security information is more frequent than previously known.

The inspector general review follows revelations that top Trump officials used the unclassified platform Signal to coordinate military strikes in Yemen.

The independent watchdog said it would assess whether the defense secretary followed department policies when he shared military strike plans in a group chat.

The Pentagon’s acting inspector general announced Thursday that he would review Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal messaging app to

Hegseth and other top administration officials have said that no classified information was shared in a Signal messaging app chat group.

The Defense Inspector General's Office will look into whether the defense secretary improperly shared sensitive information on the commercial app.

Defence chief Pete Hegseth and others coordinated March 15 US military strikes in messaging app conversation that included journalist.

The Pentagon inspector general's office will investigate Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of commercial messaging app Signal to discuss air strikes on Yemen, a memo released Thursday said.The probe will evaluate "the extent to which the Secretary of Defense and other DoD personnel complied with DoD policies and procedures for the use of a commercial messaging application for official business,