The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted Tuesday to recommend the full chamber hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress for not appearing before the committee to testify on the failures of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The committee voted 26 to 25 to hold Blinken in contempt for ignoring a subpoena sent last week to appear before a hearing on the preparation failures and department-level mistakes that led to the deaths of 13 U.S. service members and nearly 200 Afghans in 2021.
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