(CNN) President-elect Joe Biden on Monday said his transition team has "encountered roadblocks" from political leadership at the Defense Department and the Office of Management and Budget as his advisers work with the Trump administration. A Defense Department spokesperson told CNN that there are three briefings/interviews scheduled for this week with the Biden transition team. Tensions between the Pentagon and the Biden transition team have been intensifying in recent weeks over stalled transition briefingsLast week, Biden said that the Defense Department had refused to brief his team on the massive cyberattack on government agencies and major American technology and accounting companies. A transition official told CNN that the Defense Department continues to "deny and delay" meetings with agency review team members. Biden echoed his comments last week calling the recent cyberattack on US federal agencies and companies a grave risk to US national security.

Source: CNN December 28, 2020 17:06 UTC