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WASHINGTON 鈥� Members of the U.S. Congress, including many of President Joe Biden鈥檚 fellow Democrats, said on Tuesday they were increasingly frustrated with events in Afghanistan, vowing to investigate what went wrong.

鈥淭he events of recent days have been the culmination of a series of mistakes made by Republican and Democratic administrations over the past 20 years,鈥� Senator Bob Menendez, Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement.

鈥淲e are now witnessing the horrifying result of many years of policy and intelligence failures,鈥� Menendez said.

Menendez said his committee would hold a hearing on U.S. policy toward Afghanistan, including negotiations between former Republican President Donald Trump鈥檚 administration and the Taliban and the Biden鈥檚 administration鈥檚 execution of the withdrawal.

Committee Republicans said they wanted Secretary of State Antony Blinken to testify, 鈥渢o understand why the State Department was so ill-prepared for the contingencies unfolding before us,鈥� according to a letter sent to Menendez.

鈥淯pdates from the State Department have been inconsistent, lacked important detail, and not be responsive to Members and the American people,鈥� the Republicans wrote.

The date of the hearing was not immediately announced.

Senator Mark Warner, the Democratic Intelligence Committee chairman, had said on Monday he intended to work with other committees 鈥渢o ask tough but necessary questions鈥� about why the United States was not better prepared for the collapse of the Afghan government.

Republicans continued their harsh criticism of Biden鈥檚 policies.

鈥淭he security and humanitarian crisis now unfolding in Afghanistan could have been avoided if you had done any planning,鈥� Republicans on the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee wrote in a letter to the White House on Tuesday.

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