McConnell urges Biden to ignore Aug. 31 Afghanistan deadline
| Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Tuesday pushed President Biden to continue evacuation efforts beyond an end-of-the-month deadline and argued that the messy exit from Afghanistan is “a lot worse than Saigon in 1975.”
“The president needs to forget about the August 31st deadline. …Extend the deadline, get outside the perimeter, make sure that every single American who wants to leave is able to get out with our assistance and our Afghan allies,” McConnell said during a Fox News interview. |
