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Administration Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal

Floor Speech

By: Ted Budd
By: Ted Budd
Date: Aug. 23, 2021
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. BUDD. Madam Speaker, the situation in Afghanistan left behind by the President's hasty withdrawal has been horrific. It has been unconscionable and unacceptable.

We have thousands of American citizens unable to get to the airport in Kabul because this administration botched the withdrawal, sent mixed messages, and undercut our allied partners.

Let me be clear: We should not leave Afghanistan until every single American citizen has been safely evacuated, period.

For the last 20 years, our brave servicemen and -women have served in Afghanistan with honor, with valor, and with distinction. They have done everything that our country has asked of them and more. They deserve our gratitude and our respect.

It is time for this President and this administration to do right by them, to rescue every single American, and to demonstrate the leadership that our country needs. At this point, Madam Speaker, that leadership is severely lacking.

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