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Former top military chief, General Mark Millie, and other key military leaders appeared on Capitol Hill today,

testifying at a House hearing about policy failures

centered around the 2021 U.S. pullout from Afghanistan.

The election year hearing clearly aimed at embarrassing the

Biden administration, including revisiting a suicide attack that claimed the lives of 13

service members. But NPR's Tom Bob and reports some House Democrats push back.

One Democratic lawmaker called it a quote highly politicized hearing and other Democrats pointed

out that listen it was President Trump who reduced the number of US troops and approved a deal with the Taliban

that call for a withdrawal of all US troops even earlier in the spring, and the military

was not involved in those talks.

So the end game in Afghanistan they say

was more than just a few days in August. NPR's Tom Bowman. Congress could be on

its way to averting a partial government shutdown this weekend, as

NPR's Claudio Grusales tells us, lead House Republicans

reached to deal with the White House on a final wave of government spending

bills. A bipartisan group of congressional leaders in the Biden White House agreed on the

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