{"id":19577,"date":"2024-05-25T12:48:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T12:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/25\/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-to-undergo-nonsurgical-procedure-deputy-kathleen-hicks-will-assume-control\/"},"modified":"2024-05-25T12:48:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T12:48:15","slug":"defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-to-undergo-nonsurgical-procedure-deputy-kathleen-hicks-will-assume-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/25\/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-to-undergo-nonsurgical-procedure-deputy-kathleen-hicks-will-assume-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to undergo nonsurgical procedure, Deputy Kathleen Hicks will assume control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will undergo a nonsurgical procedure Friday evening at Walter Reed Medical Center as a follow-up for a bladder issue he had earlier this year, the Pentagon said in a release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The procedure is unrelated to his cancer diagnosis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon said the White House and Congress have been notified, and that Austin will be temporarily unable to perform his duties during the procedure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a result, \u2018Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks will assume the functions and duties of the Secretary of Defense, and serve as the Acting Secretary of Defense,\u2019 the Pentagon said.<\/p>\n<p>Austin was diagnosed with prostate cancer and hospitalized in December, but didn\u2019t tell the White House for several days at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will undergo a nonsurgical procedure Friday evening at Walter Reed Medical Center as a follow-up for a bladder issue he had earlier this year, the Pentagon said in a release. The procedure is unrelated to his cancer diagnosis.\u00a0 The Pentagon said the White House and Congress have been notified, and that <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}