House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said on Tuesday there’s “no way possible” for the United States to evacuate all Americans and complete a withdrawal from Afghanistan as per President Joe Biden’s self-imposed Aug. 31 deadline. “There’s no possible way that we can get every American that’s still in Afghanistan out in the next seven days,” McCarthy said during a news conference following a classified briefing on the matter. With time running out ahead of Biden’s end-of-August deadline, vulnerable Afghans, who fear a vengeful crackdown by the Taliban terrorist group, and foreigners continue to mass at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, hoping to escape the country. In an update on Tuesday, the Biden administration said that more than 4,000 American citizens and their families have been evacuated from the country since Aug. 14, the day before the Taliban terrorist group seized control of Kabul. The Americans are a small subset …
McCarthy Says There’s ‘No Possible Way’ to Evacuate All Americans From Kabul by Aug 31
August 25, 2021
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