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Pentagon

Biden Transition Team Pushes Back On Pentagon’s Call To Pause Briefings Over Holidays

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, December 18th, 2020

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Biden Transition Team Pushes Back On Pentagon’s Call To Pause Briefings Over Holidays

Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

President-elect Biden’s transition team on Friday disputed that it had agreed to pause meetings with Pentagon officials for two weeks, calling on briefings to resume immediately. Earlier in the day, Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller said in a statement the department and the transition team had a “mutually-agreed upon holiday pause,” which was in response to a report from Axios that Miller had directed briefings to stop until the new year. “We have met isolated resistance from some corners…

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