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Lloyd Austin In Place As Biden’s Defense Secretary

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, January 22nd, 2021

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Lloyd Austin In Place As Biden’s Defense Secretary

Washington Headquarters Services Director Thomas Muir swears in Lloyd J. Austin III as secretary of defense, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Jan. 22, 2021. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)

After being confirmed in a nearly unanimous vote by the Senate, Lloyd Austin was quickly sworn in and working at the Pentagon Friday afternoon as President Biden’s Secretary of Defense. Austin, the retired Army four-star that once headed U.S. Central Command, received a 93-2 vote in favor of his nomination to becomes the first Black Secretary of Defense. “I am honored to have this chance to serve again and to do so alongside you and your families,” Austin wrote in…

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