Wilmington, United States:
President-elect Joe Biden stated Monday that Donald Trump’s appointees at the Pentagon have been stalling on the transition and warned that the United States faces safety dangers as a outcome.
After he and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been briefed by their transition teams on national safety, Biden stated that political appointees at the Pentagon as nicely as the Office of Management and Budget had place up “roadblocks.”
“Right now, we just aren’t getting all the information that we need from the outgoing administration in key national security area(s),” Biden stated following the briefing.
“It is nothing short, in my view, of irresponsibility.”
Biden stated he was in search of a “clear picture” from the outgoing administration on the force posture of US troops about the planet.
“We need full visibility into the budget planning underway at the Defense Department and other agencies in order to avoid any window of confusion or catch-up that our adversaries may try to exploit,” Biden stated.
Trump has refused to concede the November 3 election, which Biden won by some seven million votes and by 306-232 in the state-by-state Electoral College. The president has produced unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud.
The Trump administration has drawn concern by shaking up the leadership of the Pentagon given that the election like firing defense secretary Mark Esper, who had distanced himself from the president’s use of force against unarmed anti-racism demonstrators earlier this year.
Trump’s new acting defense secretary, Chris Miller, has stated that the outgoing administration had agreed with Biden’s men and women to pause briefings for the vacation season, an assertion that the incoming group referred to as untrue.
Trump’s final-minute installation of loyalists at the Pentagon comes amid higher tensions with Iran, which Trump blamed for a rocket attack on the US embassy in Iraq ahead of the January anniversary of the US killing in Baghdad of a leading Iranian basic.
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