McCarthy calls for House to return and vote on delaying Afghanistan withdrawal

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday called for bringing the chamber back from recess so lawmakers can vote on legislation that would prohibit withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan until all remaining Americans are evacuated.

McCarthy's call came after multiple explosions around the airport in Kabul, where U.S. officials are frantically trying to evacuate Americans and Afghans at risk of retaliation from the Taliban, led to the deaths of multiple U.S. service members.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her leadership team called House members back to Washington earlier this week for a two-day session to adopt a $3.5 trillion budget resolution to begin the process for Democrats' ambitious spending plan to expand social safety net programs. But the House has since gone back on recess until Sept. 20 as previously scheduled.

McCarthy pressed for the House to take legislative action in the form of Rep. Mike Gallagher's (R-Wis.) bill, which would require the Pentagon to submit daily status reports to Congress on the evacuation of U.S. citizens and permanent residents from Afghanistan and prohibit reducing troop numbers there until the rescue efforts are complete.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mccarthy-calls-for-house-to-return-and-vote-on-delaying-afghanistan-withdrawal/ar-AANMBY5

[bluecollar2]

1. Fuck off McCarthy...n/t

[DURHAM D]

2. Does he have a list of those remaining?

Of course not.

No one does.

He is profoundly stupid but so are most Republicans. They don't get the part that we don't know who they are.



A Democrat could kill the bill by amending it to allow ALL citizens of Afghanistan(or any other country) that want to migrate to the US should be allowed to do so. Move them to military bases in the red states .

[WHITT]

3. So

Where's his uniform?

[madaboutharry]

4. I think he's needy for attention.

There really are not enough insults in the English language to describe this twit.

[gratuitous]

5. Kevin? Are you confused about who the Speaker of the House is?

You don't call for jack or shit when it comes to the business of the House. And didn't the House already give up its oversight function when it pass the AUMF for Dubya? You want to repeal that misbegotten, unconstitutional piece of legislation first? Because I'd be all for that.

[elleng]

8. AND the Commander in CHIEF.

[bluestarone]

9. EXACTLY!

[Thomas Hurt]

6. this sick twisted f**k just wants to make the situation worse to make political points at home.

[elleng]

7. OH FFS!!!

'prohibit withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan until all remaining Americans are evacuated.' wants to keep us there forever, and doesn't care about the difficulty/impossibility.

[FreepFryer]

10. Nope (Nt)

[louis-t]

11. Which would be 'never' because some of those

Americans still there don't want to leave. So, sit down and shut up, Kevin.

[IcyPeas]

12. Hey McCarthy... tell your boy ted cruz to stop blocking national security nominees

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215785731

[vanlassie]

13. Too bad he's powerless.

[kentuck]

14. Remember this?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/mccarthy-links-benghazi-panel-clintons-sinking-poll-numbers-n436151


“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee," McCarthy said. “What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she's untrustable. But no one would have have known any of that had happened had we not fought and made that happen.”

[Andy823]

15. Must have gotten

a phone call from his lord and master, loser trump! Seems like trump has been calling a lot of his "idiot" cult members to get out and trash Biden.

It helps keep the spotlight off of him and the fact he made the deal with the Taliban that got us to where we are today!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. 'More empty stunts': Pelosi's office fires back at McCarthy

Link to tweet

[ProfessorGAC]

17. A Stunt

He knows full well he's not in charge.
He can now claim he wanted to do something but dems wouldn't let him.
But, since he's not in charge he knows this wasn't going to happen.
A stunt. It's all he knows to do.

[Midnight Writer]

18. Putin told him to send more targets.

Seriously, it is to McCarthy's political advantage if more Americans are killed.

And he is enough of a sociopath to work toward that goal.