President Joe Biden’s handling of the Afghanistan crisis will have “obvious” implications for his foreign policy goals, members of both parties told the Washington Examiner, but questions remain about whether he can bounce back.

Dating back to the 2020 campaign, Biden claimed that his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, damaged the United States’s standing as the leader of the international community with his brash comments, erratic decision-making, and frequent criticism of global institutions. Biden set reestablishing America’s diplomatic relationships with its allies as a top priority of his presidency. He reiterated that throughout his first foreign trip as president in June, emphatically declaring on multiple occasions that “America is back.”