Congress awarded its greatest honor – Congressional Gold Medals – to the 13 U.S. service members who were killed in the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal.
It comes on the heels of another scathing report by House Republicans that blames the Biden administration for its dismal handling of the nation’s exit from the war.
The White House dismissed the report yesterday as partisan and inaccurate. White House spokesman John Kirby said that it was Trump’s Doha agreement with Afghanistan that resulted in the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners and its tragic aftermath.
Kirby added that Biden worked with the consequences the Trump administration left behind. However, it’s worth noting that the Doha agreement, though considered weak, was supposed to result in a gradual withdrawal from Afghanistan instead of a rushed endeavor.
Conservatives have argued based on their investigations that the Biden administration “ignored the conditions in the Doha Agreement, pleas of the Afghan government, and the objections by our NATO allies, deciding to unilaterally withdraw from the country.”