Dec. 18, 2020 11:38 am
The acting replacement for former SecDef Mark Esper has just halted defense briefings with Team Biden:
AXIOS – Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller ordered a Pentagon-wide halt to cooperation with the transition of President-elect Biden, shocking officials across the Defense Department, senior administration officials tell Axios.
Meetings between President Trump’s team and the Biden team are going on throughout the government, after a delayed start as the administration dragged its feet on officially recognizing Biden as president-elect.
Then on Thursday night, Miller who was appointed Nov. 9, when Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper right after the election ordered officials throughout the building to cancel scheduled transition meetings.
Trump wants to make his southern anti-drug fight permanent Print this article
NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST, Florida President Trump is hoping to burnish his legacy as a drug-fighting president and save more lives in the process.
In an effort to make permanent an enhanced hemispheric drug fight started in April, Trump sent his defense secretary to the southernmost point of the continental United States Wednesday to view the Defense Department’s counter-drug operations center.
“This is a national security threat,” Adm. Craig Faller, commander of U.S. Southern Command, told the
Washington Examiner after a discussion with acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller at the Joint Interagency Task Force South in Key West.
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