The Pentagon did not tell President Joe Biden and other top officials about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's hospitalization for three days, two U.S. officials said.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan and other senior White House aides didn’t know of Austin’s Jan. 1 hospitalization until the Defense Department sent over word on Jan. 4, two other U.S. officials said. Sullivan informed Biden shortly after DOD's Thursday notification.
I can't begin to understand the Kremlin-style thinking that it would be OK to have a Cabinet officer go into the hospital and nobody bothers to tell the President, their immediate boss, for days? And it's not like Austin was the Secretary of Agriculture, for Pete's sake. Some asshole made a deliberate decision to keep this secret and they need to explain why.
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Who is on the short list for replacement. The sooner the better.
Is there even a short list? Haley trumps Harris so to speak as VP.
Given the hassle of trying to get a new nomination through the Senate past assholes like Tuberville, I suspect that Ausin isn't going anywhere for the time being.
Biden has said that he wouldn't accept Austin's resignation were it offered.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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