Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement after a bipartisan majority defeated a Democratic proposal to set an arbitrary surrender date for our troops in Iraq:



“Once again, an overwhelming bipartisan majority rejected giving our enemy a timeline for withdrawal. The U.S. Senate has continued to show that an arbitrary surrender date is a non-starter. We need to move forward with the business of ensuring our troops have the funding, training, and equipment they need to complete their mission.”

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