Democrat David Trone, the Maryland Congressman seeking to succeed U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, said he would skip an anticipated debate against Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, also a Democrat, after being hospitalized late Saturday. In a statement posted to social media, Trone’s campaign said he had sought medical treatment due to dehydration and fever, […]
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin faced a tense hearing Thursday before members of Congress as they pressed him about his dayslong delay in notifying President Joe Biden and lawmakers of his hospitalization after his cancer diagnosis. Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., expressed concerns that Biden administration officials had not noticed Austin’s absence during his hospitalization and […]
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is appearing before members of Congress on Thursday to answer questions about his dayslong delay in notifying President Joe Biden and lawmakers of his hospitalization after his cancer diagnosis. Austin is expected to come under heavy scrutiny when he appears before the House Armed Services Committee. Several Republican lawmakers had called […]
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is squaring off with the House Armed Services Committee Thursday about why it took so long to notify the president, Congress, and the public about his hospitalization and stay in the intensive care unit after complications from prostate cancer surgery. Although a review released this week by the Pentagon found there […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal review blames privacy restrictions and staff hesitancy for the Pentagon’s failure last month to quickly notify the president and other senior leaders about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin‘s hospitalization for complications from prostate cancer surgery. The review, which was done by Austin’s subordinates, largely absolves anyone of wrongdoing for the secrecy […]
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday canceled a planned trip to Brussels for a meeting on Ukraine aid this week after being admitted to the critical care unit at Walter Reed National National Military Medical Center over the weekend, according to a Defense Department official. Wednesday’s planned Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting, a gathering of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday he never told his staff to keep his cancer surgery and hospitalization secret from the White House, but acknowledged he should have handled it differently and he apologized for keeping President Joe Biden and others in the dark for weeks. “We did not handle this right […]
Facing questions from reporters for the first time since his hospitalization for complications from prostate cancer surgery, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin admitted Thursday that keeping it a secret was a mistake. “Let me be crystal clear: We did not handle this right. I did not handle this right,” Austin said at a press conference at […]
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is standardizing rules aimed at ensuring the White House is promptly notified when a Cabinet secretary is unable to carry out their duties. In a memo obtained by NBC News, White House chief of staff Jeff Zients on Friday detailed the steps federal agencies must now follow when it comes […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is laying out a new set of guidelines to ensure it will be informed any time a Cabinet head can’t carry out their job after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s secret hospitalization this month was kept for days from President Joe Biden and his top aides. The new guidelines include […]
WASHINGTON — Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is being summoned to testify before Congress about his failure to immediately notify the White House about his recent hospitalization. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers sent a letter to Austin on Thursday requesting his presence at a Feb. 14 hearing that will focus on how the […]
President Joe Biden said Friday that he has confidence in Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin after the Pentagon waited three days to tell the White House that the top defense official was in the intensive care unit. Biden also affirmed that Austin had a “lapse in judgment” by not telling the White House about his hospitalization […]