Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2027 on Tuesday. On Friday, he faced the same committee to answer why troop deployment to Poland was canceled. Photo by Annabelle Gordon/UPI | License Photo
May 15 (UPI) -- Representatives of both parties in the House on Friday demanded to know why the Department of Defense stopped deployment of troops to Poland, and top Army leaders didn't have clear answers.
House Armed Services Committee members said the halting of troop deployment with no notice was a surprise to Congress, Politico reported. They had a hearing Friday with top Army leaders who gave them few answers.
"I just want to say this is a slap in the face to Poland; it's a slap in the face to our Baltic friends," Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., said. "It's a slap to the face of this committee."
The deployment was a long-planned rotation of 4,000 troops based in Texas, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put a sudden stop to it.
