{"id":687378,"date":"2021-08-26T16:05:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=687378"},"modified":"2021-08-26T16:12:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:12:29","slug":"mccarthy-congress-must-pass-bill-barring-afghanistan-withdrawal-until-all-americans-are-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-congress-must-pass-bill-barring-afghanistan-withdrawal-until-all-americans-are-out\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy: Congress Must Pass Bill Barring Afghanistan Withdrawal Until All Americans Are Out"},"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%2Fmccarthy-congress-must-pass-bill-barring-afghanistan-withdrawal-until-all-americans-are-out%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=687378&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>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) calls on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to call members of Congress back for an emergency session to assess the Afghanistan situation and pass legislation to extend the Aug. 31 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time for Congress to act quickly to save lives. Speaker Pelosi must bring Congress back into session before August 31 so that we can be briefed thoroughly and comprehensively by the Biden Administration and pass Representative Gallagher\u2019s legislation prohibiting the withdrawal of our troops until every American is out of Afghanistan,\u201d\u00a0McCarthy said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) introduced a bill this week to stop President Joe Biden from withdrawing until all Americans are out of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time for this body, this Congress to act, to hold the administration accountable and save lives. This bill would do that by requiring daily reporting to Congress on the number of Americans left in the country, and the number of Afghan allies that are seeking refuge. The bill also critically prohibits the president from withdrawing our forces until all Americans who want out are safely out of the country. Right now it seems the president is doubling down on this Aug. 31 withdrawal date,\u201d Gallagher said during an\u00a0Aug. 24 speech on the House floor.<\/p>\n<p>He said it might be too late to save face but not too late to save lives because anyone left behind in Afghanistan will be in grave danger from the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi told reporters on Wednesday that she trusts the president\u2019s judgment with regard to the withdrawal date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe judgment about leaving is a judgment that the president has made, and he has to balance the equities of what is the threat to our military and the people at the airport versus the advantage of staying. And that\u2019s kind of what he said yesterday. But I think we may\u2014more will unfold in that regard,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/newsroom\/82521-2\">said Pelosi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, McCarthy criticized Pelosi and Democrats for not spending any time this week on solving the Afghanistan crisis but instead holding votes to pass $5 trillion in spending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow much time do we spend on finding more Americans that were actually there? What we could have done is actually take up Gallagher\u2019s bill. Tell us how many Americans are there right now. Make a statement of Congress where we\u2019re co-equal branches, that we will not leave until every American comes home,\u201d McCarthy said, responding to a reporter who asked what Congress could do to make any difference in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the very least, that\u2019s what we should have done. We should have held hearings of what more do we need there. Do we need more troops there to make sure it\u2019s safer, to get people home faster? Then do it. Send the message to the president. We\u2019re our own body. We can speak for ourselves, and we should. But under this majority, the Speaker decided we would not. The only thing we would speak about is $5 trillion for a socialist wishlist,\u201d McCarthy added.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi, however, said Congress\u2019s time was well spent in a voting session to pass Biden\u2019s economic agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had such a good day in the Congress [Tuesday]. I want to salute my Caucus for the commitment to values that they demonstrated in accepting the President\u2019s budget, the Build Back Better initiative,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/newsroom\/82521-2\">Pelosi told reporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Masooma Haq<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) calls on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to call members of Congress back for an emergency session to assess the Afghanistan situation and pass &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687378","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\/687378","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687378\/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=687378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}