President-elect Joe Biden’s first defense secretary may turn out to be President Donald Trump’s last deputy defense secretary, at least for a several days.
Of 60 Senate-confirmable positions at the Pentagon, more than one third are unfilled, and time is running out for the Trump administration on the Senate’s abbreviated, election-year calendar.
The Pentagon’s assistant defense secretary for international security is leaving his U.S. Senate-confirmed post to work for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.