Pentagon ends cooperation with Biden’s transition team

On December 17, Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller ordered cooperation with President-elect Joseph Biden’s transition team to be halted. He also ordered the cancellation of all scheduled meetings on the handover of power to the future administration.

This is reported by the Axios portal.

According to the portal, ministry employees are shocked by Miller’s decision and do not know what prompted him to take such a step and if it was approved by the current US President Donald Trump. But to this day, it is the clearest display of hostility and mistrust of the Biden team from Trump’s top management.

Meanwhile, a senior Pentagon official tried to downplay the event by calling it “a simple postponement of the last scheduled meetings until the beginning of the new year” due to the holidays.

“We had less than two dozen meetings remaining on the schedule for today and next week,” the official said, adding that “Defense officials were overwhelmed by the number of meetings.”

“These top executives had to do their day-to-day work, and they also have a responsibility to deal with the transition period … Due to the holidays, we will take a two-week break. We remain committed to a productive handover,” he said. official.

As “Strana” wrote, Trump fired Pentagon chief Mark Esper on November 9 and appointed Miller, America’s leading counter-terrorism fighter, in his place.

We also said that the Biden administration will appoint a new ambassador to Ukraine.