‘I’m eager to fully recover and return as quickly as possible to the Pentagon,’ Austin said. He had initially concealed his prostate cancer diagnosis from Joe Biden.
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has been released from Walter Reed hospital, he said on Monday, after initially concealing his stay there from both the White House and Congress.
Austin kept US President Joe Biden and lawmakers in the dark about being diagnosed with prostate cancer for weeks and did not tell them for days about his hospitalisation on January 1 for complications from his treatment.
While the situation has been a headache for Biden, putting him on the defence and providing an opening for Republican attacks in an election year, the president has resisted calls for Austin to leave office.
