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12/18/2020 12:58 PM EST
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) unsuccessfully tried to get consent today to pass a bill with $1,200 checks to all Americans. | Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images
T-MINUS 11 HOURS or so until the government shuts down. No bill. No stopgap. No Covid relief package. Nothing. Waiting.
Dec. 18, 2020 5:06 pm ET
President-elect Joe Bidenâs transition team said it was informed Thursday that meetings with the Defense Department were being put on hold, adding it had met with âisolated resistanceâ in some parts of the government ahead of the Jan. 20 inauguration.
Yohannes Abraham, the Biden-Harris transitionâs executive director, said Friday that transition teams that are working with agencies to prepare for the January handoff had received cooperation from the Trump administration for the most part. But he said they had issues with some officials, âincluding from political appointees within the Department of Defense.â
Mr. Abraham said the transition was âconcerned to learn this week about an abrupt halt in the already limited cooperationâ at the Defense Department.
Fri, 18 Dec 2020 18:32 UTC
Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller 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.
Behind the scenes: A top Biden official was unaware of the directive. Administration officials left open the possibility cooperation would resume after a holiday pause. The officials were unsure what prompted Miller s action, or whether President Trump approved.
Why it matters: Miller s move, which stunned officials throughout the Pentagon, was the biggest eruption yet of animus and mistrust toward the Biden team from the top level of the Trump administration.
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.