U.S. President Joe Biden does not plan to fire Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin over his failure to disclose a hospitalization for days, the White House said on Monday.
“There is no plan for anything other than for Secretary Austin to stay in the job,” John Kirby, the National Security Council spokesperson, told reporters.
Austin, who sits just below Biden at the top of the chain of command of the U.S. military, entered the intensive care at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center on New Year’s Day, officials said on Sunday.
Details about the medical procedure or what actually happened to hospitalize Austin weren’t
