WASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. said on Monday that his transition team had faced “obstruction” from the Defense Department, raising new concerns about the Trump administration’s cooperation with transition officials with just over three weeks until Inauguration Day. “Right now, we just aren’t getting all the information that we need from the outgoing administration in key national security areas,” Mr. Biden said in Wilmington, Del., after he and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were briefed by members of the transition’s agency review teams for agencies dealing with national security and foreign policy, like the Defense and State Departments. “It’s nothing short, in my view, of irresponsibility,” Mr. Biden said. In his remarks, the president-elect said that his team had “encountered roadblocks” from political leaders at the Defense Department as well as at the Office of Management and Budget. “We need full visibility into the budget planning underway at the Defense Department and other agencies in order to avoid any window of confusion or catch-up that our adversaries may try to exploit.”

Source: New York Times December 29, 2020 00:22 UTC