The White House announced that Biden will head to Wilmington after a full day of visiting Louisiana communities devastated by Hurricane Ida. Before he departs the executive mansion for New Orleans Friday morning, the president is scheduled to give remarks on the August jobs report.
Biden was supposed to travel to Delaware two weekends ago, but his trip was initially pushed back and then scrapped due to the ongoing withdrawal from Afghanistan — which was then in its final phases — as well as the approach of Hurricane Henri toward the northeastern US.
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Though the last US military flight from Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport departed Monday, Biden and his administration’s top officials have come under harsh scrutiny for failing to remove approximately 100 US citizens, as well as an undisclosed number of legal permanent residents and thousands of Afghans who assisted US-led NATO forces during the two-decade war against the Taliban. Those Afghans and their families have been left to fend for themselves against the vengeful Islamic fundamentalists.
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On Thursday, more than two dozen Senate Republicans accused the Biden administration of evacuating thousands of Afghans with no ties to the United States at the expense of the allies — who held or had applied for so-called Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs).
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Meanwhile, three California school districts have announced that some of their students remain in Afghanistan after traveling with their families to visit relatives there during summer vacation.
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Last month, Biden came under fire for staying at Camp David as the Taliban completed its final assault against the Western-backed government of Afghanistan, which culminated in the taking of Kabul on Aug. 15 and the flight into exile of then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. The president cut his Camp David stay short and returned to Washington the following day to give an address to the nation on Afghanistan — during which he admitted that the Taliban reconquest “did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated.” Biden then returned to Camp David before heading back to the White House for good the following evening.
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On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday”, Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX), the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said that the Taliban were holding American citizens and Afghan allies “hostage.”
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“We have hundreds of American citizens left behind enemy lines in Afghanistan as I speak. And also, very sadly, the interpreters who worked with our special forces, almost all of them were left behind and were not let in the gates at the airport at HKI to get out.
And that was a promise that the president made. I’ve said all along, this resident has blood on his hands. And, this week, this last week, we had 13 service men and women come home, flag draped coffins at Dover Airbase.”
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