Snopes showed why fact-checkers can’t be taken seriously after it covered for Biden, who this week forgot the name of his Defense secretary.

'I keep calling him general, but my - the guy who runs that outfit over there - I want to make sure we thank the secretary.'

The order comes less than a month after some veterans and current service members participated in the incursion into the Capitol.

'We know first-hand the risk that climate change poses to national security because it affects the work we do every day.'

Many Democrats opposed a similar waiver in 2017 for Jim Mattis, former President Donald Trump's first secretary of defense.