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The Blast: Tropical storm headed to Texas, McCaul blasts Biden on Afghanistan, Democrats home in on TX-23
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Date: 2021-09

MCCAUL CALLS BIDEN'S AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL "DISGRACEFUL"

U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, one of the most prominent critics of President Joe Biden's handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal, took his criticisms directly to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing Monday afternoon.



"The freedoms our troops helped secure for Afghan women and girls have been stripped away in a matter of weeks," McCaul said in his capacity as the top Republican on that committee. "This, in my judgment, is not only disgraceful, but it also dishonors the men and women who served our nation so bravely."



"Mr. Secretary, the American people don't like to lose, especially to the terrorists," said McCaul, an Austin Republican. "But that is exactly what happened."



Blinken testified remotely via video and was pointedly deferential during McCaul's questioning. Even so, McCaul pressed Blinken on efforts to get Americans and Afghans out of the country and about the ability for U.S. intelligence services to understand what is happening in Afghanistan. — Abby Livingston



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