FIRST ON FOX: A prominent House Republican is calling for the resignations of every individual on President Biden's national security team as part of a reckoning for what he called its "disorderly retreat from Afghanistan." In a Wednesday letter obtained by Fox News, Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., specifically called out Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National security adviser Jake Sullivan, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley. Barr, who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, added to already-mounting scrutiny of the administration's withdrawal from the war-torn nation. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe White House did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment. "American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves," he said.

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