{"id":1207879,"date":"2022-01-11T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T17:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1207879"},"modified":"2022-01-11T12:19:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T17:19:13","slug":"biden-admin-to-give-308-million-to-afghanistan-in-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-to-give-308-million-to-afghanistan-in-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin To Give $308 Million To Afghanistan In Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-to-give-308-million-to-afghanistan-in-aid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1207879&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration announced plans to send more than $300 million in aid to the people of Afghanistan on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>National Security Council spokeswoman Emily Horne clarified in a statement that the money \u201cwill directly flow through independent humanitarian organizations,\u201d to avoid assisting the Taliban. The aid aims to provide assistance for healthcare, hygiene, hunger and cold weather, according to the White House. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/30\/darin-hoover-mark-schmitz-alleges-biden-watch-soldiers-dover-air-force-base\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018That Didn\u2019t Happen Just Once\u2019: Gold Star Fathers Allege That Biden Looked Down At His Watch When All Fallen Service Members Came Home)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States is announcing a new contribution of more than $308 million in humanitarian assistance for the people of Afghanistan,\u201d Horne said in a statement provided to the Daily Caller. \u201cThis brings total U.S. humanitarian aid in Afghanistan and for Afghan refugees in the region to nearly $782 million since October 2021, and we remain the single largest donor of humanitarian aid in Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7309263\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7309263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>DULLES, VIRGINIA \u2013 AUGUST 31: Refugees board a bus at Dulles International Airport that will take them to a refugee processing center after being evacuated from Kabul following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan on August 31, 2021 in Dulles, Virginia. The Department of Defense announced yesterday that the U.S. military had completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending 20 years of war. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The U.S. is also providing Afghanistan with 1 million additional COVID-19 vaccine doses, bringing the total dose donation to 4.3 million since Biden entered office. Biden has faced heavy criticism for his handling of the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan late last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Biden vowed that the withdrawal would be \u201csafe and orderly,\u201d but the event turned out to be deadly and chaotic, with more than a dozen U.S. Marines being killed in a bombing while protecting the Kabul airport. The administration also abandoned hundreds of U.S. citizens and tens of thousands of Afghan allies in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban forces overthrew the U.S.-backed Afghan government in less than a month this summer, far outpacing the Biden administration\u2019s predictions. Biden attempted to claim in the aftermath that no one could have predicted the Afghan government could fall so quickly, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/31\/jen-psaki-afghanistan-joe-biden-withdrawal-kabul-fell-taliban-intelligence-failure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">despite reports<\/a> that the U.S. intelligence community warned him of exactly that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[U.S.] leaders were told by the military it would take no time at all for the Taliban to take everything,\u201d an anonymous U.S. intelligence official&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/afghanistans-collapse-us-intelligence-wrong\/story?id=79470553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told ABC News<\/a> at the time. \u201cNo one listened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intelligence community assessment has always been accurate; they just disregarded it,\u201d the official reportedly added, speaking about the Biden administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration announced plans to send more than $300 million in aid to the people of Afghanistan on Tuesday.National Security Council spokeswoman Emily Horne clarified in a statement &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}