{"id":2000089,"date":"2023-08-14T14:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T18:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-house-foreign-affairs-chair-threatens-to-block-afghanistan-funding-until-taliban-cut-off\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T14:19:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T18:19:33","slug":"watch-house-foreign-affairs-chair-threatens-to-block-afghanistan-funding-until-taliban-cut-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-house-foreign-affairs-chair-threatens-to-block-afghanistan-funding-until-taliban-cut-off\/","title":{"rendered":"House Foreign Affairs Chair threatens to halt Afghanistan funding until Taliban sever ties."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fwatch-house-foreign-affairs-chair-threatens-to-block-afghanistan-funding-until-taliban-cut-off%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=2000089&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<h2>House Republicans Ready to Take Action \u2062on Taliban\u200d Funding<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>House Foreign \u200dAffairs Committee \u200bchairman Michael McCaul (R.,\u200d Texas) stated that\u200c House \u200bRepublicans are prepared to &#8220;put a hold on&#8221; U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-worthy-recipient-pro-life-group-names-trump-pro-life-person-of-the-year\/\" title=\"\u201cA Worthy Recipient\u201d- Pro-Life Group Names Trump Pro-Life \u201cPerson Of The Year\u201d\">tax dollars<\/a> that are \u200dflowing to the Taliban.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m prepared in my position to put a hold on this funding until we get assurances it&#8217;s not going right into the hands of the Taliban,&#8221; \u200bMcCaul said\u2062 Sunday on Fox News in response to a <i>Washington Free Beacon<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/biden-admin-has-given-2-35-billion-to-taliban-controlled-afghanistan\/\">report<\/a> \u2062that the Biden administration has sent more than $2.35 billion to Afghanistan since the \u200bTaliban took over\u200c the country in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The payments persist despite <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/biden-admin-has-given-2-35-billion-to-taliban-controlled-afghanistan\/\">warnings<\/a> from lawmakers and officials that the funds could enter the hands of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-reps-iranian-dissidents-fiercely-protest-iranian-regime-using-clubhouse-to-spread-propaganda-and-lies\/\" title=\"GOP Reps, Iranian Dissidents Fiercely Protest Iranian Regime Using Clubhouse To Spread \u2018Propaganda And Lies\u2019\">terrorist regime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McCaul on Sunday \u2064said, &#8220;We need some assurance that this is gonna go to the\u2063 right hands,&#8221; and if the Taliban\u2064 can&#8217;t provide\u200b assurance, &#8220;We need to be prepared to cut that funding off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Republican \u2063presidential candidate Nikki Haley has called for similar action, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/haley-calls-to-end-taxpayer-aid-to-afghanistan\/\">saying<\/a> that as president\u2064 she would cut all aid to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>McCaul also\u200b said he is &#8220;prepared to go forward&#8221; in subpoenaing Biden administration officials over\u200c the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport\u200c that killed 13 U.S. \u2062servicemen amid\u200b the White House&#8217;s chaotic withdrawal from the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re \u2062prepared to go forward with subpoenas to\u200d get to the bottom because these Gold Star families &#8230; deserve the truth as to what happened to make sure this never happens again,&#8221; McCaul said.<\/p>\n<p>McCaul added that the &#8220;story gets worse by the \u2062day&#8221; and that he \u2063will &#8220;not rest until we get to the bottom of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McCaul&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">committee<\/a> has \u2064intensified its probes into the administration&#8217;s \u2064handling \u2063of the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan. In the aftermath of the Taliban&#8217;s takeover, the terrorist\u200c group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/04\/27\/politics\/afghan-weapons-left-behind\/index.html\">seized<\/a> billions of dollars&#8217; worth of U.S. military equipment. The Biden\u200d administration has still not properly <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/?post_type=post&#038;p=1726200\">vetted<\/a> 88,000 Afghan \u2063refugees who fled to \u2064the United States\u200d after the Taliban took over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul (R., Texas) stated that House Republicans are ready to halt the flow of U.S. tax dollars to the Taliban. He emphasized his willingness to suspend funding until there are guarantees that the money will not end up in the hands of the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":2000090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000089","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\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}