‘Under review’: Austin and Blinken sort through which Trump policies to keep, modify, or toss

Published January 28, 2021 12:11pm ET



IT’S UNDER REVIEW: Whether it’s the Pentagon looking at whether it should stick to the Trump administration timeline for pulling all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, or the State Department examining arms sales to the UAE and Saudi Arabia, all of former President Donald Trump’s foreign policy moves, including some he considered his greatest achievements, are getting a scrubbing in the opening days of the Biden administration.

“Across the board, as the president has said, we’re reviewing all of these actions that are of deep concern to us,” said Secretary of State Antony Blinken at his first State Department briefing. “Whether it is the treatment of [Russian opposition leader Alexei] Navalny and particularly the apparent use of a chemical weapon in an attempt to assassinate him. We’re looking very urgently as well at Solar Winds and its various implications. We’re looking at the reports of bounties placed by Russia on American forces in Afghanistan. And, of course, we’re looking at these questions of election interference.”

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