GOP senators outraged over 'shocking breakdown' related to Defense Sec Lloyd Austin's secret hospitalization

By Fox News —— Bio and Archives January 6, 2024

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U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, said Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin needs to explain why the White House and senior officials weren't immediately notified that he'd been hospitalized earlier this week until days later, amid a complex time as the Biden administration deals with a slew of national security matters abroad.

Austin was admitted to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday for complications following a recent elective medical procedure," Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said Friday, at which time the press was told. ---More...