Democrats ignored Afghanistan while pushing their big spending agenda

 Washington Examiner:

President Joe Biden’s push to advance a multitrillion-dollar spending plan focused on a range of Democratic Party priorities has marred his handling of the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal, a former official said.

“This Afghanistan withdrawal has exposed the fundamental flaw in the Biden administration. If it doesn’t involve spending American taxpayer money on a new element of the progressive scheme, they don’t care,” said Michael McKenna, a veteran of former President Donald Trump's White House and the George H. W. Bush administration. “They’re not going to let it distract from their message. And paying attention to the border, and paying attention to Afghanistan, and paying attention to China, distracts from that fundamental mission.”

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“The reason we didn’t go to Benghazi with the troops we had there is that we didn’t feel like it,” said McKenna, Trump’s former deputy legislative affairs director. “Not because we couldn’t, and not because we didn’t have time. It’s because we didn’t want to."

“And the reason why the withdrawal in Afghanistan hasn’t been orderly and relatively peaceful is that the Biden guys don’t care,” he continued. “They made no effort to make it that way.”

Throughout the crisis, Biden’s top aides have continued to push the president’s domestic agenda.

“The No. 1 priority for our Cabinet overall, from our perspective here, is to build support throughout the [August] recess process for the legislative agenda,” White House senior adviser Neera Tanden said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times last week. Tanden “is dispatching Cabinet members to key states, monitoring lawmakers’ town halls and arranging hundreds of local TV interviews with administration officials,” according to the report.

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What makes it worse is that their agenda is totally wasteful spending in an attempt to buy votes.  It will be a disaster for the country if enacted on top of the disaster they allowed in Afghanistan, the border, and elsewhere.  It is as if the whole Democrat party is suffering from dementia and not just the President.

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