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“The White House needs to be more forward-leaning,” said Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), who chairs the Armed Services Committee and has been in touch with senior Biden officials. Rogers criticized the White House for agonizing over short-term decisions on military assistance without a clear sense of what will get them closer to ending the war. “[Biden] always gets to the right decision, just three to six months after the fact, and that’s the inherent problem,” he said. On Wednesday, McConnell blasted Biden’s public messaging on Ukraine as “insufficient” and indicative of “timid leadership” on the matter. Biden “has an obligation...
