Biden Endorses Female Generals Whose Promotions Were Delayed Over Fears of Trumpâs Reaction
The unusual strategy to slow the promotions until after the election â intended to protect the officersâ accomplished careers â was devised by top Pentagon leaders.
President Biden had endorsed the generalsâ promotions, and the White House was formally submitting them to the Senate for approval, the Pentagon announced on Saturday.Credit.Yuri Gripas for The New York Times
March 7, 2021
WASHINGTON â President Biden has nominated two female generals to elite, four-star commands, the Defense Department announced, months after their Pentagon bosses had agreed on their promotions but held them back out of fears that President Donald J. Trump would reject the officers because they were women.
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Top Pentagon officials delayed recommending two female U.S. military generals for four-star promotions, waiting until after the 2020 presidential election last November, over fears that the Trump administration would replace them with its own, likely male, candidates.
Last year, former defense secretary Mark T. Esper and the then-chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley, had decided to promote Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost of the Air Force and Lt. Gen. Laura J. Richardson of the Army to elite, four-star general commands, the New York Times reported, but they worried that “the Trump White House would replace them with its own candidates before leaving office.”