{"id":659233,"date":"2021-08-18T18:35:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T22:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=659233"},"modified":"2021-08-18T18:35:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T22:35:37","slug":"exclusive-house-republicans-to-propose-bill-forcing-biden-administration-to-reveal-how-much-us-weaponry-taliban-seized-during-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-house-republicans-to-propose-bill-forcing-biden-administration-to-reveal-how-much-us-weaponry-taliban-seized-during-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans To Propose Bill Forcing Biden Administration To Reveal How Much US Weaponry Taliban Seized During Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-house-republicans-to-propose-bill-forcing-biden-administration-to-reveal-how-much-us-weaponry-taliban-seized-during-takeover%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=659233&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234726548-scaled-e1629323626823.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee plan to offer legislation that would require the Biden administration to reveal how much U.S. equipment was taken by the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans&nbsp;told the Daily Caller News Foundation that&nbsp;they would introduce the bill during the upcoming&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/armedservices.house.gov\/ndaa\">full committee markup<\/a>&nbsp;of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) early next month. Since the U.S.-backed Afghanistan government\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/15\/taliban-fighters-enter-kabul-afghan-president-ashraf-ghani-flees\/\">sudden collapse<\/a>&nbsp;on Sunday, the Taliban has reportedly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/18\/taliban-afghanistan-biometric-data-military-army-hiide-security\/\">seized<\/a>&nbsp;an enormous stockpile of American weaponry, equipment, vehicles and artillery, the Associated Press&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-army-taliban-185017ba2944eb43392a0ad8ffffb25f\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden-Harris administration has failed to provide an accounting of U.S. equipment now in the hands of the Taliban,\u201d Armed Services Ranking Member Mike Rogers said in a statement to the&nbsp;DCNF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublican Members on the Armed Services Committee demand to know this information and we plan to offer legislation at our markup to require the Biden-Harris administration to detail what they have lost to the Taliban,\u201d he said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/pentagon-united-states-military-weapons-equipment-taliban-afghanistan-joe-biden\/\">(RELATED: Pentagon Refuses To Answer Question On Taliban Obtaining US Weaponry, Equipment)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/pentagon-united-states-military-weapons-equipment-taliban-afghanistan-joe-biden\/\">refused to respond<\/a> to questions regarding the Taliban\u2019s seizure of billions of dollars worth of weapons the U.S. previously gave to Afghan security forces. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4T9TADZNG9Y\">said<\/a> Wednesday that he \u201cpreferred not to discuss\u201d any potential actions the U.S. could take to ensure American equipment stayed out of the Taliban\u2019s possession.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.235457063712\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Taliban?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Taliban<\/a> not only seized appr. a hundred US humvees and (MaxxPro) MRAPs at Kunduz airport, but also several US ScanEagle drones.<br \/>Billions of US tax payer $ going to Islamist extremists, thanks to the administration\u2019s hasty withdrawal without a peace deal or follow up mission. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fb5MTpdLKK\">pic.twitter.com\/Fb5MTpdLKK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Julian R\u00f6pcke (@JulianRoepcke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulianRoepcke\/status\/1425751441629716485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Videos shared on social media purportedly showed Taliban fighters <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realJamesKlug\/status\/1428000920655343622\">sifting<\/a> through hundreds of American guns, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beinlibertarian\/status\/1426684872723156994\">sitting<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Archer83Able\/status\/1426522045467267074\">helicopters<\/a> given to the now-defunct Afghan military, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulianRoepcke\/status\/1425751441629716485\">driving<\/a> U.S. military vehicles and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulianRoepcke\/status\/1425751441629716485\">holding<\/a> high-tech drones. One image <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/T_Ascendent\/status\/1427772361634426887\">appeared<\/a> to show the Taliban operating a stealth U.S. helicopter in the skies of Kabul on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20 Senate Republicans led by Select Committee on Intelligence Ranking Member Marco Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/public\/_cache\/files\/9939850a-4ef6-44f3-9895-9ff63ea466e8\/1BD4E3A619D314417E454545C95B5C4B.08.18.21---rubio-et-al-letter-to-austin-re-afghanistan.pdf\">wrote<\/a> a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday, demanding more information about the equipment taken by the Taliban. The Republicans confirmed that the insurgents had possession of UH-60 Black Hawks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unconscionable that high-tech military equipment paid for by U.S. taxpayers has fallen into the hands of the Taliban and their terrorist allies,\u201d the letter said. \u201cSecuring U.S. assets should have been among the top priorities for the U.S. Department of Defense prior to announcing the withdrawal from Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NDAA is the annual appropriations legislation that outlines the federal government\u2019s defense budget.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon did not respond to multiple requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee plan to offer legislation that would require the Biden administration to reveal how much U.S. equipment was taken by the Taliban.The Republicans\u00a0told the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}