Pelosi criticizes lawmakers' Afghanistan trip: 'This is deadly serious'
Source: the hill.
By Cristina Marcos - 08/25/21 10:45 AM EDT
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday criticized the secret trip by two House members to Afghanistan the day before, given the personal risk to the lawmakers and the strain on limited federal resources that are currently focused on evacuating people from the country.
Pelosi said she hasn't spoken with Reps. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) or Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) since they returned from Afghanistan, adding "they have to make their own case as to why they went" but warning that such trips are "deadly serious."
"It was not, in my view, a good idea," Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol.
The Speaker said she learned of their trip to Afghanistan shortly before it became public and sent a memo to all House members on Tuesday warning them against traveling to the region to avoid any efforts to follow the example of Moulton and Meijer, who are Iraq War veterans.
She noted that making their travel public before they were airborne "would not have been safe for them."
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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/569334-pelosi-criticizes-lawmakers-afghanistan-trip-this-is-deadly-serious
I want to hear why they went--from them.
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Speaker Pelosi on Reps. Moulton and Meijer: "This is deadly serious. We do not want members to go." http://hill.cm/NLYc2U5
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The Wash post has a neg take on Pelosi's response--well, the headline does anyway. I have not read the Post article.
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