Lloyd Austin Archives - New Jersey Globe

Menendez slaps Blinken on Afghanistan, demands ‘accountability’

September 14, 2021 2:45 pmSeptember 14, 2021 11:05 pm

New Jersey’s Bob Menendez isn’t giving President Joe Biden a pass on the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan just because they’re both Democrats. As chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Menendez made that clear this morning when...

N.J. Democrats who opposed waiver for Mattis must now decide Austin’s fate

December 9, 2020 11:16 amDecember 9, 2020 3:02 pm

When the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve a waiver for retired Marine Corps General James Mattis to serve as Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense in 2017, New Jersey’s House delegation split along party lines. Four years later, President-elect...

Kim says he’ll back Austin waiver, but Sherrill not ready to commit

December 8, 2020 7:06 pmDecember 9, 2020 8:35 am

Two Democrats from New Jersey who serve on the House Armed Services Committee today voiced different views on support of a waiver that would allow President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for U.S. Secretary of Defense, retired Army General Lloyd Austin, to...