U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) recently requested details from the Biden administration on the number of United States service members who currently have family trapped in Afghanistan and what the agencies are doing to secure their evacuation.
“Over the last month, I have been contacted by hundreds of Texans who are desperately trying to get friends and family members safe out of the country… that includes the family members of several Texans who currently serve in the military,” Rep. McCaul wrote in a Sept. 10 letter sent to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. “They have been working night and day to safely evacuate their family members. But their efforts so far have not been successful.”
Rep. McCaul noted that “thousands, if not tens of thousands” of America’s Afghan partners and their families also have been left behind, according to his letter.
“These brave men and women have volunteered to risk their lives to protect our country,” the congressman wrote. “Yet, now, when they need us the most, the federal government has turned our backs on them.”
Rep. McCaul wrote that the U.S. cannot abandon the family members of its service men and women in Afghanistan and should secure their immediate evacuation.