House to vote to condemn Biden, Kamala Harris and others over 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal
The House is set to vote to formally condemn President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and other officials over their handling of the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The House is set to vote Wednesday to formally condemn President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and other officials over their handling of the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The resolution, introduced by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, criticized the administration’s “chaotic, precipitous” Afghanistan withdrawal, saying its “willful refusal to properly plan for a noncombatant evacuation operation, and decision to rely on the Taliban to run checkpoints surrounding” the Kabul airport led to the 2021 attack at Abbey Gate at the airport in the final days of the withdrawal.
The resolution also points to Harris’ April 2021 comments to CNN that she played a central role in Biden's decision to pull troops from Afghanistan.
Separately, the Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday voted to advance a measure to hold Blinken in contempt of Congress after he did not comply with a subpoena to provide testimony at a hearing on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Blinken was at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York on Tuesday, the same day as the hearing, and reiterated his willingness to testify and expressed disappointment to McCaul in a letter earlier this week about the congressman's decision to pursue the contempt resolution.
A spokesperson for the State Department, Matthew Miller, disputed the need for Blinken to testify again, saying in a statement earlier this month that the secretary has testified before Congress on the matter more than any other Cabinet member.
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