Members of both the House and Senate Armed Services committees have reached out to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin demanding answers regarding his extended secretive hospital stay.

Austin, 70, has been hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center since Jan. 1 after experiencing complications from his prostate cancer treatment, though it took days for the White House, Congress, and the public to be notified of his hospitalization, and even longer to learn what put him in the hospital.

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