US House committee recommends contempt charge for Blinken

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a joint press conference with Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty (not pictured) in Tahrir Palace in Cairo, Egypt, September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool/File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Republican-led U.S. congressional committee recommended on Tuesday that Secretary of State Antony Blinken be held in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena seeking information about the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee voted 26-25 in favor of a report recommending that the full House find Blinken in contempt after he did not appear at a hearing on Tuesday morning on the withdrawal.