"My family and I are deeply grateful for the President's action today," Milley said in a statement to USA Today provided by a spokesperson.
Andrés was removed from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. Milley will no longer serve on the National Infrastructure Advisory Council.
President Biden noted that the "should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing."
President Donald Trump removed four holdover high-profile presidential appointees early Tuesday, using his Truth Social platform to deliver the message.
The Pentagon on Monday removed the portrait of Mark Milley, the retired Army general and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to two Reuters witnesses, in a move that happened within two hours of President Donald Trump's inauguration.
Joe Biden has issued preemptive pardons to Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley and more just hours before Donald Trump's inauguration.
The Pentagon pulled down a portrait of retired US Army General and frequent Donald Trump critic Mark Milley just hours after Trump’s Monday inauguration in Washington, DC, witnesses told Reuters.
A portrait of retired Gen. Mark Milley, whom Donald Trump has suggested is guilty of treason and should be executed, is no longer on the wall at the Pentagon. Just a few hours after Trump’s inauguration Monday,
Donald Trump, who overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts to win another term in the White House, is set to be sworn in as the 47th U.S. president
On Monday, Trump repeated his “I was saved (from assassination) by God to make America great again” mantra. (Despite his repeated references to God, the president swore his oath without placing his hand on either of the two Bibles Melania Trump held out to him, one a Lincoln Bible and the second a Bible Trump’s mother gave him.)