They're leading six investigations into the missteps that led to a deadly withdrawal, but they also don't want to hurt their own party's president
Sen. Bob Menendez questions Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Sept. 14. | Drew Angerer/Pool via APCongressional Democrats are promising rigorous investigations of the Biden administration’s chaotic exit from Afghanistan. It might come back to bite them.
While the congressional probes will initially focus on the Biden administration’s missteps, Democrats leading them have promised a broad look at the failures by officials who served in previous administrations of both parties. It’s how Democrats plan to head off a GOP-led campaign to pin the Afghanistan collapse solely on Biden, whom his allies say inherited a flawed diplomatic agreement with the Taliban from former President Donald Trump that tied his hands.
When asked if it could become a headache for Biden, Reed quipped: “Well, I hope not. It’s more just us doing our jobs.” Still, Biden is facing the brunt of the criticism over the way the U.S. left Afghanistan — including a frenetic, deadly evacuation operation that ultimately left hundreds of Americans and thousands of vulnerable Afghans behind, which his detractors blame on poor planning and intelligence failures.
on foreign policy. He frustrated the Obama administration with his opposition to the Iran nuclear deal and the détente with Cuba, for example, and his hawkish views have informed much of his criticism of the Afghanistan withdrawal. Menendez, though, supported Biden’s April decision to pull all U.S. troops out of the country.
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