{"id":720621,"date":"2021-09-05T16:06:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=720621"},"modified":"2021-09-05T16:06:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T20:06:26","slug":"rep-waltz-slams-biden-admin-over-claim-about-americans-left-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-waltz-slams-biden-admin-over-claim-about-americans-left-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Waltz slams Biden admin. over claim about Americans left in Afghanistan"},"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\">24<\/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%2Frep-waltz-slams-biden-admin-over-claim-about-americans-left-in-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=720621&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 id=\"attachment_2510402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2510402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 AUGUST 31: U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) (3rd L) speaks as House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) (3rd R) and other House Republican veterans listen during a news conference at Rayburn Room of the U.S. Capitol August 31, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 12:58 PM PT \u2013 Sunday, September 5, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Florida Congressman Michael Waltz (R) has rejected the Biden administration\u2019s claim that Americans left in Afghanistan didn\u2019t want to leave, despite being warned to do so. In an interview on Saturday, Waltz dismissed the claim as \u201ca bunch of garbage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waltz pointed out Americans left behind very much wanted to leave and sent numerous emails out. However, government officials across the administration have continued to say everything would be fine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re desperate to leave. They very much have wanted to leave. They were trying to when the Kabul airport was open, and they\u2019re still trying to now,\u201d said Waltz in an interview Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our evacuation mission in Afghanistan is NOT over. Right now, Americans are in hiding waiting for private flights to be diplomatically cleared by the State Department for take off. (1\/2) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fPnOg0PvBV\">https:\/\/t.co\/fPnOg0PvBV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelgwaltz\/status\/1434275681291182082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also noted they would of had to travel through several Taliban checkpoints without U.S. protection to make it to the Kabul airport.<\/p>\n<p>Waltz\u2019 comments came after Biden took to Twitter to offer a \u201cwelcome home\u201d message to Afghan refugees while many Americans, green card and SIV holders still remain in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/biden-to-travel-to-all-3-sites-of-9-11-attacks\/\">Biden To Travel To All 3 Sites Of 9\/11 Attacks<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 AUGUST 31: U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) (3rd L) speaks as House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) (3rd R) and other House Republican veterans listen during &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720621","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\/720621","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=720621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720621\/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=720621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}