.ZeeshanAleem: Sen. Hawley is throwing a tantrum — of course — over something he actually advocated for.
to hold up every Biden nomination for the State Department and the Department of Defense unless their top officials — Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin respectively — as well as Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, resign.
Those top officials are not going to resign, and Hawley alone doesn’t have the power to actually block Pentagon or State Department nominations. Democrats control the Senate, so at best Hawley can drag his feet and delay the nominations by forcing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to go throughHawley and everyone else in Washington knows this rebellion is mostly a symbolic one, and one which is meant to generate attention more than results.
in a terrorist attack in Kabul and the fact that some U.S. civilians remained in Afghanistan even as the formal withdrawal ended in August.. “He has dishonored this country with his shameful leadership in this crisis. And it is time for him to resign.”
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