WASHINGTON – Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin said the fullest possible American effort is merited to address the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. “We should do everything we can to provide humanitarian aid and resettlement assistance for Afghan refugees, women and children,” she said. The Biden administration is taking thousands of people out of Kabul on mercy flights, some of them destined for a makeshift refugee center at Fort MCCOY in Wisconsin. Baldwin said she stood with President Biden’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan even though it emboldened Taliban insurgents who have taken over the country, Keeping the U.S. military in Afghanistan with no end in sight would be the wrong decision, Baldwin said “Right now our primary focus should be the safe departure of U.S. personnel and the Afghan civilians who risked their lives to support our mission. “
Baldwin. Calls for focus on evacuation of at-risk Afghans who had supported the U.S. military and diplomatic presence for 20 years.