Biden Holds Firm to Aug. 31 Deadline, Pledges to Leave Afghanistan

President Joe Biden, facing a ticking clock and wrenching scenes of individuals desperately trying to depart a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, insisted Tuesday he would get the work done on time, with no Americans left behind.

 

Biden, his approval rating tumbling amid the primary major foreugn policy crisis of his presidency, sought to reassure a skeptical public, noting that the pace of evacuations had increased. As of Tuesday, 70,700 Americans, allies and Afghans who had helped the U.S. mission there had been spirited out of the country, the president said, with 6,400 evacuated on 31military and civilian planes within the previous 12 hours alone.

"We are currently on pace to end by Aug. 31," Biden's self-imposed deadline to urge out everyone who wants to go away and is qualified to be evacuated by the us , the president said. "The sooner we will finish, the higher ," he added, noting that the safety risk – especially from ISIS-K, an Afghanistan-based affiliate of the Islamic State group also at odds with the Taliban.

 

"It's a tenuous situation," the president said.

The Taliban, too, has imposed an Aug. 31 deadline, and there are worries that they're going to not permit people passage to the airport if the us doesn't finish the mass evacuation in time.

 

Biden repeatedly said he expected the work to be done by the top of the month but added that he had asked both the Pentagon and therefore the State Department to draw up "contingency plans" just in case that does not happen. Meeting the White House and Taliban deadline depends on the Taliban's cooperation in letting people pass safely to the airport in Kabul, he added.

 

The White House didn't detail what percentage passport-holding U.S. citizens had been moved thus far and the way many were still waiting to urge on a plane. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the State Department has been working 24/7 to spot those that are still in Afghanistan and need to go away .

 

She said State features a list of individuals who voluntarily registered with the embassy but that the count doesn't include those that chose to not register or who have already left the country. At the daily press briefing, she offered to require from reporters the names and get in touch with information of a person still trying to urge authorization to be evacuated.

 

Biden said Secretary of State Antony Blinken would offer more specific numbers Wednesday.

The episode has brought unwelcome tumult and criticism during a month when Biden had hoped to require a couple of days vacation and move along his domestic agenda. He had some success within the latter category Tuesday after the House, following tense negotiations within the bulk Democratic caucus, passed a resolution that guarantees a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill by Sept. 27 and allows for the writing of Biden's $3.5 trillion "human capital" budget. As Biden spoke, the House was also preparing to pass a sweeping voting rights package.

 

But when it came to delivering another item to a war-weary public – ending the nation's 20-year presence in Afghanistan – things are even messier.

 

The Taliban quickly took control after U.S. forces began moving people out of the country, a painful scene for several who had hoped the U.S.-trained Afghani government would manage to stay power.

 

Horrific scenes of individuals hanging onto planes during a desperate plan to flee fueled criticism that Biden, who casts himself as an old policy hand, had not fully thought out the mission before putting it into place.

 

Biden has said that the pullout was never getting to be easy or smooth and has rejected calls to increase the deadline now.

 

The longer it goes, Biden said, the greater threat to U.S. troops and to those seeking to go away .

 

"We've already had gunfighting escape . We run a significant risk of it breaking down as time goes on," the president said.

 

Biden met virtually Tuesday morning with members of the G-7, and said he had also talked to NATO and EU leaders. While political figures in allied nations have criticized Biden's handling of the evacuation, Biden said the leaders are fully solidarity within the mission, including tending to refugees.

 

"We are getting to stay united, locked at the hip, in terms of what we've to try to to ," Biden said.

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