Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in the hot seat again on Tuesday to defend the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan before angry lawmakers from both parties.

Blinken appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the morning following testimony on Monday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in which Blinken used the same defenses the administration has used for weeks now.

"There's no evidence that staying longer would have made the Afghan security forces or the Afghan government any more resilient or self-sustaining," he said.

Blinken blamed the Trump administration’s deal with Taliban to withdraw by May 1, said NATO allies were on board, cited the travel warnings for American citizens to leave, defended their efforts to revive the Special Immigrant Visa Program, and said no one saw the Afghan government's collapse coming so swiftly.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken argued to House lawmakers that the Trump administration gave Biden no choice but to leave Afghanistan and that it did not offer any plan for how to safely do that, despite the former president agreeing with the Taliban to withdraw all troops by May 1.

"We inherited a deadline. We did not inherit a plan," Blinken said.

“It’s amazing it wasn’t much, much worse,” replied Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., going on to shield the Biden administration with criticisms of the Trump administration.

Republicans on the committee took a tougher tone, with Rep. Mike McCaul, R-Texas, pressing Blinken on the pullout from Bagram Air Base as well as on the six chartered planes the Taliban has grounded in Mazar-e-Sharif, where Americans have been waiting to evacuate for nearly two weeks.

“Not only us, but virtually the entire international community, including the United Nations Security Council resolution has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the Taliban if they want to seek any legitimacy or any support, and that includes -- it starts with freedom of travel,” Blinken said, without offering process in place to allow those flights to move.

Echoing McCaul, the Republican ranking member of the subcommittee for Asia, Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, called the evacuation mission the "worst foreign affairs disaster in American history" and a "disgrace."

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, representing the Biden administration, defended the U.S. evacuations from Afghanistan to House lawmakers on Monday in the first hearing on Afghanistan on Capitol Hill.

"There is no evidence that staying longer would have made the Afghan security forces or the Afghan government any more resilient or self-sustaining," Blinken said. "If 20 years and hundreds of billions of dollars in support, equipment, and training did not suffice, why would another year, or five, or ten, make a difference?"

He blamed the Trump administration’s deal with Taliban to withdraw by May 1, said NATO allies were on board, cited the travel warnings for American citizens to leave, defended their efforts to revive the Special Immigrant Visa program, and said no one saw the Afghan government's collapse coming so swiftly.

"Nonetheless, we planned and exercised a wide range of contingencies," he will say -- praising the evacuations as "an extraordinary effort under the most difficult conditions imaginable" and reminding lawmakers that previous administrations shuttered embassies and withdrew from countries while leaving some U.S. citizens behind.

Blinken confirmed there are still roughly 100 U.S. citizens left in the country that are trying to evacuate and the State Department is in constant touch with them, he said.

Rep. Mike McCaul, R-Texas, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, came out swinging in his opening statement before Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified at the first Capitol Hill hearing on Afghanistan since the chaotic U.S. evacuation mission ended.

"Mr. Secretary, the American people don't like to lose, especially not to the terrorists. But that is exactly what has happened," McCaul said.

Painting a picture of Taliban flags flying in Kabul, recalling the 13 service members killed in August and reminding that Americans and Afghan allies are still stuck in the country, McCaul said he could summarize the U.S. evacuation mission in one word: "Betrayal."

"The America I know keeps its promises. The most important promise for our military is no man left behind. No one left behind. But you broke this promise," he said.

"Our standing on the world stage has been greatly diminished. Our enemies no longer fear us. And our allies no longer trust us," McCaul said, going on to directly address veterans and say their service was "not in vain."

The committee chairman, Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., criticized Republicans for expressing outrage at Blinken but not at the Trump administration for making a deal with the Taliban to withdraw troops in May.