Pentagon and Biden Team Disagree Over Who's to Blame for DOD's Transition Pause On 12/18/20 at 3:19 PM EST The Pentagon and President-elect Joe Biden's team are in disagreement over why the Defense Department decided to reschedule transition meetings set to take place in the coming weeks. Defense Secretary Chris Miller released a statement Friday after Axios reported that he had personally "ordered a Pentagon-wide halt to cooperation with the transition of President-elect Biden, shocking officials across the Defense Department." Miller, responding to the report, claimed that there had been a "mutually-agreed upon holiday pause"—a claim later rejected by Biden's team.