With last troops out of Afghanistan, House GOP plans 'accountability' for Biden administration
by Emily Brooks, Political Reporter |
| August 31, 2021 07:01 AM
With U.S. troops fully out of Afghanistan by President Joe Biden’s Aug. 31 deadline, House Republicans who opposed the withdrawal date are full of rage — and planning a variety of legislative tactics to get a better understanding of the situation.
GOP lawmakers say they want to hold the administration accountable for failures in the withdrawal’s execution that left 13 U.S. service members dead and hundreds of Americans still in the country.
Hours after the last U.S. plane carrying troops departed the Kabul airport and left Afghanistan in the hands of the Taliban on Monday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy held a roundtable discussion on Afghanistan with more than two dozen House Republicans to discuss their next moves, despite Congress not being in session all week.
Anger punctuated the meeting, with members furious that Americans remain in the country. Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw said that “we ended no wars,” arguing that despite giving up a “strategic position” of troops in Afghanistan, terrorists are still at war with the United States. Florida Rep. Brian Mast called ISIS-K, al Qaeda, and Taliban terrorists “swine.”
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