{"id":1995437,"date":"2023-08-09T13:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T17:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-calls-to-end-taxpayer-aid-to-taliban-controlled-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T14:01:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T18:01:12","slug":"nikki-haley-calls-to-end-taxpayer-aid-to-taliban-controlled-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-calls-to-end-taxpayer-aid-to-taliban-controlled-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley urges halt to taxpayer aid for Taliban-led Afghanistan."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fnikki-haley-calls-to-end-taxpayer-aid-to-taliban-controlled-afghanistan%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=1995437&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--><div>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Afghanistan emerges as top Republican foreign policy priority<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<p>      \u200c Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley \/\u2064 Wikimedia \u200cCommons<br \/>\n \u200d<br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s $2.35 \u200bbillion investment in Taliban-controlled\u200c Afghanistan is emerging as a flashpoint in\u200d the 2024 presidential race, with Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley vowing to cut all\u200d U.S. aid to the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I\u2019m president, we won\u2019t \u200dsend one penny to terrorists \u200dand\u2062 countries that\u2064 hate \u2063America,&#8221; former \u200bUnited \u2064Nations ambassador Nikki Haley told the <em>Washington \u2064Free \u200bBeacon<\/em> on Wednesday. &#8220;Nearly two years after \u2063Joe Biden\u2019s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, he \u2064continues to add insult to injury \u200dby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-claims-inside-government-actors-helped-january-6-protesters-building-is-still-unsafe\/\" title=\"AOC Claims \u2018Inside\u2019 Government Actors Helped January 6 Protesters, Building Is Still Unsafe\">throwing taxpayer dollars<\/a> at the Taliban-controlled country. This is a\u2062 terrorist regime that killed our \u2062troops and tortures\u2063 its own people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2014and the \u200cBiden administration\u2019s deadly 2021\u200c evacuation from \u200cthe country that left 13 Americans dead\u2014has \u2064become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsins-democrat-governor-appointed-a-violent-felon-to-the-state-juvenile-justice-commission\/\" title=\"Wisconsin\u2019s Democrat Governor Appointed A Violent Felon To The State Juvenile Justice Commission\">major talking point<\/a> among the GOP\u2019s\u200d 2024 field of candidates as they \u200bseek to \u2063brandish their \u200cforeign \u2063policy credentials. Former vice president \u200dMike Pence has repeatedly slammed the\u200c Biden administration\u2064 for removing all U.S. forces from the country, and his former \u2063boss, Donald Trump, also \u200cblamed\u200b the current president for the\u2062 Taliban\u2019s rise \u200bto power. Florida governor\u2064 Ron \u200cDeSantis had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-dept-deputy-spox-has-history-of-anti-cop-rhetoric\/\" title=\"State Dept. Deputy Spox Has History of Anti-Cop Rhetoric\">made similar comments<\/a> about the bungled U.S. withdrawal, \u200cthough he hasn\u2019t\u2062 focused \u200dheavily on foreign \u2064policy up to \u200cthis point.<\/p>\n<p>Haley\u2019s comments are\u200d some of the clearest to date \u200cfrom a\u200c Republican candidate about what \u2062U.S. policy\u200d towards Afghanistan \u2062would look like moving forward. The Biden administration has \u2063pumped taxpayer cash into the country since\u200d the Taliban retook \u200cpower, and the United States remains \u200cthe war-torn\u200c country\u2019s \u2062top \u200dpatron, the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> reported on Tuesday. This cash is believed to \u2062be propping up the \u2062Taliban\u2019s\u200b government.<\/p>\n<p>Haley has also come out in favor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-want-to-slash-aid-to-iraq-lebanon-and-the-united-nations\/\" title=\"Republicans Want To Slash Aid to Iraq, Lebanon, and the United Nations\">cutting foreign aid<\/a> to a range of countries she says &#8220;hate\u2062 America.&#8221; These include Iraq, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Belarus, and Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Haley, \u200bwho led efforts during her time at the United Nations\u2062 to \u200ccut ties with a \u200drange of\u200c organizations known for their anti-Israel bias, also has\u2062 proposed cutting U.S. \u2063donations\u200b to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, a \u2063humanitarian group that works primarily in the Palestinian territories and is known to employ terrorist sympathizers.<\/p>\n<p>While domestic issues and the\u2063 country\u2019s ailing\u200c economy rank\u2062 as the top issues for voters, foreign policy could play a role in \u2062the 2024\u2064 contest due to the Biden administration\u2019s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and the\u2064 U.S. government&#8217;s \u200baid to Ukraine in its ongoing war \u2064against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan continues to drive down President Joe Biden\u2019s \u2064poll numbers, which took a dive \u2063following the 2021\u2063 withdrawal \u2064and continue to suffer as a result,\u200d according to NPR \u2064polling.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2062 issue \u200bcould remain\u200b a talking point for Republican candidates \u2063as the Republican-controlled \u200bHouse conducts investigations into the Afghanistan debacle that have\u200b already shown the Biden administration ignored early warnings about a brewing catastrophe and made many missteps throughout the \u2063evacuations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was very\u2063 little intelligence to suggest \u2062the\u2062 Biden administration\u2019s plan would work and a mountain range of \u200devidence to suggest the plan\u2064 would fail,&#8221; retired Col. Seth\u2062 Krummrich, former chief of staff for special \u2062operations at U.S. \u2062Central Command, told lawmakers during a hearing late \u200clast month.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Goldberg, a former White House\u200d National Security Council member during the Trump administration, said that Afghanistan\u200c is certain to rank as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-calls-to-end-taxpayer-aid-to-taliban-controlled-afghanistan\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley urges halt to taxpayer aid for Taliban-led Afghanistan.\">top foreign policy \u2062priority<\/a> as the 2024 election\u200c continues to\u2062 heat up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The withdrawal from\u200d Afghanistan is really at the core of so many issues that will be at the\u200d center of public debate for \u2064the next \u200c15\u2062 months,&#8221; said Goldberg, \u2062who currently serves \u2063as a senior adviser to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think\u200c tank. &#8220;The perception of U.S.\u2063 weakness and decline, the greenlight \u200bfor Russia to \u2063invade Ukraine, increased \u2064threats from\u200b the \u2063Chinese Communist Party, a radical Islamic regime in Tehran on the doorstep of nuclear threshold status, and, \u2062of course, the\u2062 rising terrorism \u2064threat we now face from inside \u200dAfghanistan itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When I become president, all U.S. aid to Afghanistan will be terminated,&#8221; declares Republican candidate Nikki Haley, as the Biden administration&#8217;s $2.35 billion investment in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan becomes a focal point in the 2024 presidential race. 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