Two weeks after the Biden administration’s troubled withdrawal of the U.S. military from Afghanistan, a powerful Senate Republican finally had Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the hot seat Tuesday to grill him on what went so wrong.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Sen. James Risch’s odd questioning about a button pusher in the White House controlling Biden
Republicans continue to grab at low-hanging fruit attacking the president, often in place of legitimate questions about the Afghanistan withdrawal
Analysis by Amber Phillips
September 14, 2021 at 2:43 p.m. EDT