Senate Confirms Austin in Historic Vote, Installing First Black Defense Secretary

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The former general was approved overwhelmingly, after Congress granted him a waiver from a law that bars anyone who has been retired from active-duty military service for fewer than seven years from leading the Pentagon.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/us/politics/lloyd-austin-defense-secretary.html

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