Joint Chiefs Chair Milley says he wasn't trying to 'usurp authority' with China calls

Gen. Mark Milley.
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday that key officials were aware and even helped coordinate his now-controversial calls with China made late in the Trump administration, The Washington Post reports.

The first call, Milley said, was directed by Defense Secretary Mark Esper, the Post reports.

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Brigid Kennedy

Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.