Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s unexplained health emergency, and his subsequent and ongoing stay at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, has embroiled the Pentagon during the early days of 2024.

The defense secretary, 70, has been at Walter Reed for a week, first getting transported to the military hospital via ambulance on Jan. 1, where he was immediately put in the intensive care unit. He is no longer in the ICU but is still in the hospital, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder told reporters on Monday. Ryder said he found out that Austin had been taken out of the ICU earlier Monday, though he could not confirm that he was moved on Monday.