democrats wasted no time taking a bow. at last we have arrived and we are elated. every member of my caucus is elated about what happened because we really have changed the world in a way that you rarely get an opportunity to do that. it is going to make a difference to my grandkids. the world will be a better place for my grandchildren because of what we did today. harris: many economists paint a very different picture from he just said calling the inflation reduction act saying it will do exactly the opposite and republicans are warning the legislation will wind up raising taxes on the middle class. they call it the inflation reduction act. the most orwellian name in the senate since i ve been there. people paid 26 paychecks a year, biden policies have consumed four of those 26 paychecks out of every year. that is appalling. it is doubling appalling they would spend more and raise taxes in the middle of a recession while we re in inflation. harris: the spending plan
january 15th, 2021. our forces, their size in afghanistan will be 2,500 troops. president biden must decide whether to continue. all his national security advisors advise against pulling all u.s. troops out. april 14th, 2021 u.s. president joe biden announces u.s. forces will withdraw unconditionally by september 11th. july 2, 2021 u.s. troops pull out of bag gram air force base leaving in the middle of the night surprising afghan partners and leaving thousands of prisoners un the taliban take kabul and take over the presidential palace hours after the president fled the country. scenes of desperation at the airport ensue. u.s. troops are sent to secure the airport and the largest
but every time it got worse, not better. this count have been a surprise. they were never going to step to the plate and couldn t have been a surprise they wouldn t fight. no allegiance to a country. we knew. special ops people said it gets worse every day. every mission was worse. we used to drive from kabul to bag gram. after i went back the second time you couldn t do that. everything got bad. i just i have to tell this one. it drives me insane to see the television at night and see the taliban and all them wearing our uniforms, wearing our night vision doing everything using everything we have. our m raps and everything else we left there. i just can t believe it. i can t get an accounting of how much equipment we really did leave. i know how many aircraft we left and basically m raps and all the different things but not to plan better to take that
0 retake bagram then? thank you, senator. you are right, the tempo had picked up significantly. the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engaged in after began leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and stiffen their defenses to no avail. and to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military and this created further problems for the afghan security forces. mr. secretary i don t mean to interrupt but my time is lapsing. this gets to the overestimation, i think the overly optimistic assessment. even as late as july you are still encouraging the afghan special forces, you are expecting the ghani government to remain, but that was not the case. in december of 2019 the washington post reported the u.s. military commanders privately expressed a lack of confidence that the a
values, the struggle against terrorism, of the fallen this day are part of a great noble company of american heroes. for those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes america harm, know this, we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you down and make you pay. i will defend our interests and our people with every measure at my command. president biden was also asked yesterday about the decision to give up bag gram air base and here is what he had to say about that. on the tactical questions of how to conduct an evacuation or a war, i gather up all the major military personnel that are in