The Daily 202: Trump allies more outraged than Democrats over his Afghanistan pullout – The Washington Post

The Daily 202: Trump allies more outraged than Democrats over his Afghanistan pullout - The Washington Post 2The chairman of the Joint Chiefs was glaringly absent during the acting Defense secretary’s announcement.

Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, called President Trump’s order to halve the size of the U.S. force in Afghanistan by Jan. 15 “the right policy decision.” Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Tex.), the ranking member on the committee, said “these additional reductions of American troops from terrorist areas are a mistake.”

The best indication yet that congressional Republicans accept Trump’s defeat in the election has been the flurry of statements decrying the Tuesday announcement by acting secretary of defense Chris Miller that the military will reduce troop numbers from about 5,000 to 2,500 in Afghanistan and from about 3,000 to 2,500 in Iraq before the inauguration.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) took to the floor to declare that he is “alarmed” by Trump’s plan to reduce the U.S. presence to “a potentially unstable and dangerous level,” and that the lame-duck president is doing so “without any real consultation, either with our allies at NATO or elsewhere, certainly not with Congress.”

“A precipitous retreat, which would reverse the progress we have made and fought so hard to make, is deeply troubling,” Cornyn said.

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