A newly released Pentagon report has concluded that U.S. military bases used to house Afghan nationals that were evacuated from Afghanistan amid President Joe Biden’s pullout from the country have sustained hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage.

The report comes after approximately 76,000 Afghan nationals were evacuated over a period of several days back in August 2021 to staging bases in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Italy, Bahrain, and Germany.

The evacuees were then sent to temporary housing facilities at eight DoD installations — Fort Bliss, Texas; Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JBMDL), New Jersey; Fort McCoy, Wisconsin; Camp Atterbury, Indiana; Fort Pickett, Virginia; Fort Lee, Virginia; Marine Corps Base (MCB) Quantico, Virginia; and Holloman Air Force Base (AFB), New Mexico.

The U.S. Department of Defense Inspector General said that 11 of the installations submitted estimates to reset facilities, equipment, and consumables to pre-Operation Allies Welcome conditions.

The costs were broken down into two categories: Facilities and Equipment/Consumables.

The report said that there was an estimated $257.48 million in damage to the facilities, including $174.9 million for Army bases, $3.21 million for Navy bases, $63 million for Air Force bases, and $16.37 million for Marine Corps bases.

A group of DoD restoration reviewers said that $238.04 million in damages were eligible to be paid for through Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid (OHDACA) funds.

The report said that the remainder in damages to facilities and damages to equipment/consumables — more than $100 million — would need to paid for through the operation and maintenance or military construction appropriations allocated to each involved DoD Component.

For example, Air Force officials said that the damage caused by the Afghan nationals was unrepairable as officials described “tables, chairs, and cots broken by guests and tents and cots ruined by spray paint, human biological matter, and holes.”

The high costs to U.S. taxpayers resulted in damaging the U.S. military’s preparedness for military operations, the report said.

“DoD installations reported that facilities and equipment were overused, damaged, and remained in various degrees of disrepair, resulting in a costly maintenance effort,” the inspector general found. “DoD installations need to restore their facilities and equipment to a condition that enables them to conduct trainings, prepare for future events, and return to normal base operations.”

Conservative attorney Harmeet Dhillon is celebrating the House January 6 Committee withdrawing its subpoena against former President Donald Trump.

The victory for The Dhillon Law Group, which Trump hired after being subpoenaed in October for testimony and documents, comes as Dhillon is challenging Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel to lead the Republican National Committee.

“After my firm filed suit on separation of powers grounds to block January 6 House Select Committee’s illegitimate subpoena to President Trump over his activities while president — the committee waved the white flag & withdrew subpoena,” Dhillon said in a tweet Wednesday.

“We were confident of victory,” she added, “in court, given precedent & refusal of prior presidents to testify in Congress. J6 committee wasted millions for a purely political witch-hunt, total abuse of process & power serving no legitimate legislative purpose.”

Dhillon shared a screenshot of a letter signed by January 6 Committee Bennie Thompson (D-MS) that announced the withdrawal and offered a brief explanation.

“As you may know, the Select Committee has concluded its hearings, released its final report and will very soon reach its end. In light of the imminent end of our investigation, the Select Committee can no longer pursue the specific information covered by the subpoena,” the letter said.

1/ BREAKING! After my firm filed suit on separation of powers grounds to block January 6 House Select Committee’s illegitimate subpoena to President Trump over his activities while president— the committee waved the white flag & withdrew subpoena. We were confident of victory/ pic.twitter.com/7ElOXljpt1

— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) December 29, 2022

After a year and a half of investigating efforts to challenge the 2020 results and the Capitol riot, the January 6 Committee released its final report last week, recommending Trump be barred from holding office again. Members of the panel also voted unanimously to recommend Trump be charged with obstructing an official proceeding, conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to make false statements to the federal government, and inciting an insurrection.

Trump, who announced last month he is embarking on a third campaign for the White House, has broadly denied any wrongdoing, and he has castigated the January 6 panel as being the “Unselect Committee of political hacks.” Trump celebrated the news Wednesday in a Truth Social post in which he exclaimed “the Subpoena is DEAD!”

Dhillon, whose law firm represented The Daily Wire in its U.S. Supreme Court case blocking the Biden administration from enforcing its COVID vaccine mandates for private employers, is now running against McDaniel and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to lead the RNC, which is scheduled to meet on January 27 in California, where 168 party members will vote on the chair.

“We must beat the Democrats at their own game,” she told The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro in a recent interview, referring to the ballot-gathering process. She also said about her campaign, “I’ve already received a tremendous outpouring of support.”