McCain to Carter: No plan, no money for Syria program
By Jacqueline Klimas (@jacqklimas) • 12/9/15 10:56 AM
Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he submitted a request more than a month ago to get the rest of that money to buy and transport ammunition and weapons to drop to members of the Syrian Arab Coalition.
"All four committees have failed to act on that request, and I ask you to release these holds urgently. We should not be impeding the very momentum we are trying to build," Carter said.
But McCain said Congress would need to see a plan before the Pentagon received anymore money for the train and equip program, which he called a "failure."
"We don't want to approve of something like that again," McCain said. "We have an obligation to taxpayers."
He said specifically that he didn't want a repeat of a previous hearing where the leader of U.S. Central Command revealed that only single digits of fighters remained after many were either captured, killed or scattered shortly after entering Syria.
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