John Kirby, Director of Strategic Communications for the National Security Council, confirmed on Tuesday that the White House was not informed of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s initial hospital stay for prostate cancer surgery.
News broke over the weekend that Austin had been hospitalized on January 1 — and even spent some time in the Intensive Care Unit at Walter Reed Military Medical Center — due to complications from an elective procedure. And a short time later, the news broke that the White House had not been informed of the Defense Secretary’s hospitalization until several days later.
When Austin’s doctors finally spoke to his condition on Tuesday, they revealed that he had undergone an initial procedure — during which he was under general anesthesia and spent the night in the hospital — on December 22.
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