# Hegseth Fires Navy Sec. Phalen. Strait Of Hormuz Still Not Open. Iran Hearings: Finally.

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Podcast: [Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff](https://stenobird.com/podcast/independent-americans-with-paul-rieckhoff-981737)
Published: 2026-04-23T21:12:10+00:00
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Trump has signaled he may halt the U.S. resettlement program for the Afghans who risked everything to fight alongside American troops — and is reportedly negotiating to offload as many as 1,100 of them to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Among them: interpreters, former Afghan Special Operations Forces, and roughly 400 children of U.S. service members, all stranded in Qatar for over a year after we evacuated them and then walked away. Paul Rieckhoff calls it what it is — a disgusting, shameful betrayal, and the latest compounding failure in a collapse that Biden owns, Trump owns, and Washington refuses to fix.

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