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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told lawmakers Wednesday that the Trump administration didn’t leave behind plans for a negotiated withdrawal from Afghanistan for him to use when he took over the Pentagon.
“There was no handoff to me of any plans for withdrawal,” Austin testified Wednesday before the House Armed Services Committee. “In terms of hand-off from administration to administration, secretary to secretary, there was no handoff to me.”