Organizations Scramble To Evacuate Americans From Afghanistan

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🗓️ 29 August 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan is expected to be completed this week as President Biden continues to insist there is no end to the commitment to safely evacuate Americans and Afghans who want to leave the country. Vice President of Women for Women International Marie Clarke details how her organization is attempting to help get people out of Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover of the country. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi brought lawmakers back from August recess this week to pass a Senate-approved $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation resolution. This budget framework clears the way for Democrats to approve that spending without a single Republican vote. Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX) explains how this deal came together Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.0	Americans and Afghans are racing to evacuate
0:27.0	before next week's U.S. troop withdrawal.
0:29.0	The Taliban would set up multiple different little
0:32.0	checkpoints in between or randomly segregate people
0:36.1	and then push them back.
0:37.8	And Democrats stick together to press forward on the President's build back better agenda.
0:43.6	So we got a figure out an amount that we can work with.
0:48.0	And of course I want to know what's in there.
0:51.3	This is the Fox News rundown from Washington. The US withdrawal from Afghanistan is expected to be completed next week, along with the military-led evacuation effort happening at Cobbles Airport.
1:13.3	Despite that deadline, the president has insisted there is no end to the commitment to get Americans
1:17.6	out, along with Afghan partners who want to leave the country.
1:21.0	We'll be, I believe, numerous opportunities to continue to provide access for additional
1:28.4	persons to get out of Afghanistan, either through means that we provide and or are provided through a cooperation with the Taliban.
1:47.0	Not that the Taliban are good guys, President Biden says, but they do have incentive.
1:52.0	They very much would like to figure out how to keep the airport open.
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