For Immediate ReleaseContact: Jessica LycosDate: August 27, 2021jessica.lycos@mail.house.gov

Gosar Slams Mr. Biden’s Decision to Cancel Crisis Response Bureau While Taliban Advanced Across Afghanistan

Prescott, AZ – Congressman Paul Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) issued the following statement after sending a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken in response to reports that the Biden administration dissolved the Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau (CCR), a unit within the Department of State tasked with rapidly evacuating Americans who came into harm’s way while overseas.

“Just as the Taliban was beginning its march across Afghanistan, the Biden administration shockingly canceled a program designed to provide logistics, medical, and airlift support to protect American’s overseas in connection with evacuation efforts.

Now, American servicemen and women are dead and countless Americans remain trapped behind enemy lines, stranded in Afghanistan and Mr. Biden cannot guarantee their safe withdrawal. 

The CCR was designed to prevent this very catastrophe from occurring. Canceling this program at a time when the Biden administration should have been finalizing well thought out plans to remove our citizens from Afghanistan is, to be perfectly blunt, idiotic. This combined with Mr. Biden’s disastrous troop withdrawal in Afghanistan leaves no question that Mr. Biden is not fit to hold the highest office in the land and should be impeached,” concluded Congressman Gosar.

Click here to read a copy of the letter I sent to Secretary Blinken. 

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