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But there are critics of the bipartisan NDAA deal reached over the weekend on both sides of the aisle, including a somewhat surprising one: —Sen. Roger Wicker.

GOP defense hawks blast planned troop drawdown

The chairs of the House and Senate Armed Services committees on Wednesday denounced the United States’ planned drawdown of troops from Romania.

In a joint statement, Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and his House counterpart, Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), slammed the planned end of a rotation that dates back to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and brought a U.S. Army brigade to Romania. The Romanian defense ministry announced the news Wednesday.

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