Absent Democrats give Republicans new opening on Afghanistan

Posted on AllSides September 1st, 2021
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House Republicans are seizing on the absence of their Democratic colleagues in Washington by launching a full-scale political attack on President Biden and his top aides after the deadly withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

While congressional Democrats have been largely silent after Monday’s official end to the war, with many back in their congressional districts for the final three weeks of the summer recess, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in recent days has held a pair of news conferences in the Capitol demanding that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) call the House back into session....

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