Two Republican-led House panels are about to sink their teeth into investigations of the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — the latest GOP probes of the Biden administration.
the drawdown — and former President Trump's agreement with the Taliban, which they say set the stage for the messy exit from Afghanistan.Sen. Bob Menendez , chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said lawmakers will investigate what he called the Biden administration’s flawed execution of the U.S. withdrawal, as well as a "series of mistakes made by Republican and Democratic administrations over the past 20 years.
Some nonprofit organizations who played significant roles on the ground in Kabul in the weeks leading up to and after the U.S. withdrawal are choosing not to testify for fear of becoming pawns in a political game.
That report provides a blueprint for questions likely to dominate hearings: the decision to close Bagram Airfield, recommendations made by military generals about troop levels, and inadequate military and consular personnel to Kabul. The State Department says as of November 2022, it had done more than 150 briefings to Congress on the Afghanistan withdrawal, and that senior officials have appeared in public hearings and responded to other requests for information.The Biden administration will argue that Biden inherited a withdrawal timetable that Trump agreed to with the Taliban, and that any exit from a 20-year war would have been messy.
“Instead of returning the U.S. to active combat with the Taliban and putting even more of our troops’ lives at risk, President Biden made the tough decision to finally end the twenty year war in Afghanistan," Sharon Yang, White House spokesperson on oversight, told Axios.
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