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...46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan....’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan has put a spotlight back on the controversial waiver Congress used to confirm the nomination of now-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
Austin has come under fire for his admission this week that the United States military does not have the capability to help the thousands of Americans stranded outside the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport.
Austin said, "We don’t have the capability to go out and collect up large numbers of people."
Austin’s involvement in the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan follows as Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), the chairman of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), urged Republicans in January to vote against Austin’s waiver to allow him to serve as the defense secretary.
The RSC in a January memo said Austin "is not the right person for the job of Secretary of Defense," noting he "has a track record of failures of the [Central Command] head in Syria and Iraq and in the war on ISIS."
Banks opposed Austin as early as last December:
Austin received confirmation to become secretary of defense after receiving a waiver from Congress. Typically, active duty personnel have to wait seven years after retiring from service to become the defense secretary.
Congress has granted only two exemptions to this rule, which include when former President Donald Trump
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nominated Gen. Jim Mattis and when former President Harry Truman nominated Gen. George Marshall in 1950.
The RSC Steering Committee said in a statement in January that Congress could learn from the lessons based on nominating the two generals:
General Lloyd Austin has not been out of uniform for the requisite seven years and thus requires a waiver from the U.S. House of Representatives to serve as secretary of defense. Based on the lessons learned after the House made the unprecedented move of granting a waiver four years ago, the Republican Study Committee will oppose granting General Austin a waiver.
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