Virginia Foxx: “The American people are outraged, and they have every right to be. I am outraged with them. All they have seen thus far…”

“The American people are outraged, and they have every right to be. I am outraged with them. All they have seen thus far in this administration is the buck being passed and both a President and his administration that refuse to uphold the basic tenets of leadership. This administration has ruined, mishandled, and dissembled every issue it has touched. Americans are fearful that the country that they love and respect is being run into the ground at an alarming speed. Americans deserve answers, and our allies across the world deserve them as well. Mr. Speaker, Americans feel betrayed. They feel that they have been betrayed by their own government. That feeling of betrayal was extremely palpable when Americans were stranded in Afghanistan because of an arbitrary deadline from the Taliban that this administration caved to. In the following days, there were no answers, only speculation as to how many Americans were still left in Afghanistan who wanted to leave. Even now, as this administration grapples with how to respond to the Taliban's takeover, you would be hard-pressed to find real answers. In a so-called classified briefing yesterday, Members got no concrete answers. It was a pitiful--I am saying ``pitiful''--display of willful ignorance and incompetence. Mr.…”