{"id":727649,"date":"2021-09-07T17:35:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T21:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=727649"},"modified":"2021-09-07T18:28:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T22:28:26","slug":"chuck-schumer-says-all-americans-who-wanted-to-leave-afghanistan-are-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chuck-schumer-says-all-americans-who-wanted-to-leave-afghanistan-are-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Schumer Says All Americans Who Wanted to Leave Afghanistan 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\">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%2Fchuck-schumer-says-all-americans-who-wanted-to-leave-afghanistan-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=727649&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>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said all American citizens who wanted to leave Afghanistan have made it out, contradicting numbers coming out of the U.S. State Department and accounts from organizations still evacuating U.S. citizens and allies from Kabul airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Americans, all of whom wanted to come out, have come out, praise God. But there are a lot of Afghans who risked their lives for our soldiers and others. Many got out, some didn\u2019t,\u201d Schumer said during an interview with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v6Z7J2EZMao\">local ABC news<\/a> station in New York on Sept. 3.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate leader went on to say that not all Afghan allies have made it out and his office is in the process of helping many to get out of Afghanistan via land routes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m still working on trying to get some of them out. A particularly poignant story. There\u2019s an orchestra of young people, co-ed. The Taliban hates them. They hate music and they hate boys and girls performing. We tried to get them out. I spoke to General Milley about a number of different cases including that one. They got up to the gate and a Taliban checkpoint turned them back,\u201d said Schumer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo now the hope is we can figure out a way. The State Department has worked out the borders that are going to be safe to cross for three or four countries, and maybe they can get out that way,\u201d added Schumer.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters aboard Air Force One on Tuesday that President Joe Biden receives regular updates about the number of American citizens still in Afghanistan, citing State Department numbers of around 100.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just under that. I think the State Department has given numbers. As you may have seen out there reported over the weekend, there were four American citizens who were able to depart,\u201d said Psaki referring to citizens who recently escaped Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the Americans who were blocked by the Taliban from leaving on flights recently, Psaki defended the administration\u2019s effort, saying those with proper paperwork will be allowed to depart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo let me be very clear: We\u2019re in touch with American citizens. We\u2019re working to get them out. There are four who were able to depart overland. Our Secretary of State is in Qatar right now working, and what we have seen is that individuals who have documentation are able to depart, or that\u2014that is what we have seen. But again, we don\u2019t have a great deal of understanding of every individual,\u201d Psaki added.<\/p>\n<p>When U.S. troops withdrew on Aug. 30, between 100 and 200 Americans were left behind, breaking a promise that President Joe Biden made to get every American out who wanted to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 100 Americans remain in Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, and State Department officials are in direct contact \u201cwith virtually all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden administration officials have attempted to portray those who couldn\u2019t get out before U.S. troops withdrew as dual nationals who were torn between leaving and staying, a narrative undercut by the\u00a0dozens of U.S. primary school students who couldn\u2019t escape before the withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>Some outside estimates have pegged the number of Americans stranded in Afghanistan as high as 500. Republicans have pressed the administration to provide the full number, but officials have declined because they say the figure is constantly fluctuating as more people leave and some who already left confirm their departures with the State Department.<\/p>\n<p><em>Zachary Stieber contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WEB_MasoomaZia1.jpg\" alt=\"Masooma Haq\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Masooma Haq<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said all American citizens who wanted to leave Afghanistan have made it out, contradicting numbers coming out of the U.S. State Department and accounts &#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-727649","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\/727649","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=727649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727649\/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=727649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}