Roger F. Wicker

09/10/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/10/2024 08:55

Senator Wicker Statement on Congressional Afghanistan Withdrawal Report

WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., the highest-ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, today released the following statement in response to the House Foreign Affairs Committee's reporton the Biden-Harris administration's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan:

"Today we honor 13 brave Americans who died needlessly in one of the most humiliating foreign policy debacles in decades. The committee report simply confirms the outrageous details of the Afghanistan withdrawal: The Biden-Harris administration turned a bad idea into a historic debacle, leaving valuable American weaponry for our enemies to use and abandoning thousands of our long-time Afghan friends," Senator Wicker said.<_o3a_p>