'There is clearly no plan. There has been no plan. Their plan has basically been happy talk,' the GOP senator said Sunday.
. He has urged the president to keep troops in the country past Tuesday's deadline to ensure that U.S citizens who wants to leave are safely evacuated.
Sen. Ben Sasse accused Biden of relying on Taliban safety assurances to evacuate citizens from Afghanistan, calling the plan"stupid." Here, Sasse is seen at the US Capitol in Washington DC, on April 27, 2021.His comments come after the State Department said Saturday that roughly 350 U.S. citizens who wish to leave Afghanistan are still in the country.
But evacuation efforts were complicated this week by the threat of deadly terrorist attacks. Biden and intelligence officials on Saturday warned U.S. citizens to avoid the Kabul airport because of a"specific, credible threat," just days after a suicide bombing killed 13 U.S. service members and over 170 Afghans outside of the airport on Thursday.
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