Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., in a statement on Saturday alleged that the Department of Defense "deliberately withheld the Secretary of Defense’s medical condition for days. That is unacceptable.”
Former Vice President Mike Pence said Austin’s delay in disclosing his hospitalization amounts to “a dereliction of duty.”
“The handling of this by the secretary of defense is totally unacceptable,” Pence said on CNN’s "State of the Union." "The American people have a right to know about the secretary’s medical condition and the reasons behind it."
“To think that, at a time when we have allies at war in Eastern Europe, and here in Israel, that the leader of America's military at the Pentagon would be out of commission for a number of days and the president of the United States didn't know about it, I think it was a dereliction of duty,” Pence, who has been meeting with Israeli officials, said. “The secretary and the administration frankly need to step forward and give the American people the facts.”
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