Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Army’s chief of staff, General Randy George, along with two other top generals. A Pentagon spokesperson gave no reason for Thursday’s abrupt firings. General George had served as a senior assistant to former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin under President Biden. The New York Times reports he’d recently clashed with Hegseth over Hegseth’s decision to block the promotion of four Army officers to become one-star generals — two of them are Black; the other two are women.

Meanwhile, Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee are pushing for an investigation into a Financial Times report which found Hegseth attempted to make a multimillion-dollar investment in arms company stocks just weeks before President Trump joined Israel in its attack on Iran.