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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., will host a gold medal ceremony for the 13 U.S. service members killed at Abbey Gate during the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Johnson is expected to posthumously award the Gold Medal, Congress' highest honor, to the 13 Americans who died in the August 2021 ISIS-K suicide bombing at Kabul airport.
The attack also left about 170 Afghans dead. Tuesday's ceremony comes two days after Rep. Mike McCaul, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released a scathing 350-page report that scrutinized the military's activities. Afghanistan withdrawal 2021 and highlighted areas where there were serious management problems.
The Republican-led report opens by recalling President Biden's urgency to withdraw from the Vietnam War while he was a senator in the 1970s. That, along with the withdrawal from Afghanistan, demonstrates a “pattern of callous foreign policy positions and a willingness to abandon strategic partners,” the report said.
GOLD STAR FAMILIES CRIMINALIZE KAMALA HARRIS FOR ‘PLAYING POLITICS’ FOLLOWING TRUMP’S VISIT TO ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
The report also disputes Biden He claimed his hands were tied by the Doha deal that former President Trump struck with the Taliban, setting a deadline for a US withdrawal of summer 2021, and revealed how State officials had no plan to get Americans and their allies out while there were still troops there to protect them.
On the third anniversary of the attack, Trump joined the families of the 13 American service members killed at Arlington National Cemetery.
Biden and Vice President Harris were absent, and while they issued statements that day, they did not publicly name the 13 people who died.
Harris later accused Trump of playing politics with the visit, but in a series of short videos, eight families said they had invited Trump and bitterly lambasted the Biden-Harris administration for the withdrawal that left 13 U.S. service members dead three years ago.
The vice president criticized Trump's team for taking photos and videos at a wreath-laying ceremony. The Army said an Arlington National Cemetery official was “abruptly removed” from ensuring Trump's team was “briefed on federal laws, Army regulations and Department of Defense policies, which clearly prohibit political activity on cemetery grounds.”
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Families of Gold Star soldiers who lost loved ones in the failed Afghanistan withdrawal have blasted Harris for her attack on Trump's visit to honor the dead.
Fox News' Morgan Phillips, Nicholas Kalman and Andrea Vacchiano contributed to this report.