'A Picture Vividly Displayed Of Incompetence': GOP Senator Assails Biden Over Afghanistan Withdrawal

and to the leader's point i think the one thing that people more than anything else want out of their government is competence and um what we saw in afghanistan was a a picture um vividly displayed of incompetence and in traveling south dakota over the august break like a lot of my colleagues who were back home in their states people were just outraged at how poorly executed this exit was and uh and they want accountability and they deserve accountability the american people deserve answers and there are hearings underway already this week in the senate foreign relations committee and hopefully armed services committee there's some closed hearings this week but there needs to be a public accounting by the the diplomatic uh the military the intelligence leadership in this country to the american people who deserve answers and if you look every every on sort of every front right now you see incompetence the border is another good example over a million illegal crossings uh just this last year and no end in sight and no solution out of this administration except to to uh basically continue with the failed policies that they've implemented since they took office and did away with the policies of the past administration that had been fairly effective in in controlling that flow instead what they seem to be focused on is a massive expansion of government paid for with huge tax increases and lots more borrowing and debt this is unprecedented in terms of what we've seen in our country you look at the three and a half trillion dollars is sort of the number that's being thrown around out there but if you look at what the committee for a responsible federal government says they're talking five and a half trillion dollars and and so we think again that this administration democrats in congress are completely out of step with what the american people care about they don't care about a huge run-up in spending right now they care about inflation they care about america's pride america's um you know dignity when it comes to the situation in afghanistan and they care a lot about controlling the border what they don't care about is spending another five and a half trillion dollars on growing government here in washington dc so i hope that over the course of the next several weeks and months as we deal with some big issues here in the congress that the american people will begin to weigh in and start holding their elected leaders accountable and make them responsible for the issues that are important in their lives and not continue down this path of incompetent leadership that we've seen so vividly displayed over the past several weeks

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Keywords: Sen. John Thune, President Biden, Democrats

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Length: 2min 57sec (177 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 18 2021