US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized in Washington on Sunday due to an "urgent bladder problem," a Pentagon spokesperson said. The official, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer and recently underwent surgery, was taken to a military facility in suburban Washington for "an urgent bladder problem" A few hours earlier, the Pentagon had indicated that Lloyd Austin had "gone to the hospital with the classified and unclassified communications systems necessary" to carry out his duties.
The affair had caused astonishment even in the Democratic camp and sparked calls from Republicans for the resignation of Lloyd Austin.