The House Foreign Affairs Committee had waited four months for the secretary of state to testify concerning the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he is “profoundly disappointed” with House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul after the Texas Republican sent a subpoena and threatened to hold Blinken in contempt following repeated requests to accommodate a hearing as part of the committee’s investigation into the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted along party lines to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt for refusing to testify on Tuesday about the botched August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.