Carter to Lawmakers: Don’t Complain About ISIS Strategy When You’re Stalling Funds and Nominations
Responded Sen. John McCain: we won’t keep bankrolling an “absolute failure.”
Congress is simultaneously slamming and stymieing the fight against the Islamic State, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday at a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. He noted that the committee has held 58 full hearings this year, but only three to help fill key Pentagon jobs, and that Congress is holding up money for the Syria train-and-equip program.
At his second appearance before the committee in six weeks, Carter noted that the four congressional committees on defense have failed to act on his personal request a month ago to provide the final $116 million for the U.S. program to train and equip fighters in Syria.*
“All four committees have failed to act on that request, and I ask you to release these holds urgently,” Carter said. “We should not be impeding the very momentum we are trying to build.”
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