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We can and we should and we must fix that. our officed issued a report talking about the siv program and what we need to do to make sure it works better for people under threat and we need to do things like reauthorize it permanently so people are not waiting on the last-minute agreement to ensure that they could continue to have their application reviewed. we need to provide resources to ensure those people waiting years to try and get out of the country and get to the united states in safety, that they have the ability to get here and are not killed by the taliban. >> yeah. and it is a real ...

>> congress is racing the clock and they are racing the weather. they need all the senators to agree to finish this massive spending bill before they can go home before that storm hits and get home for christmas. the package would fund the government through next fall and includes a fix to the electoral count act, prompted by donald trump's attempt to overturn the election. more aid to ukraine and the expansion of the afghan siv program, but not the afghan adjustment act. explanation in a moment. many items the democrats wanted didn't make it. appropriation committee member democratic senator ...

She's visited afghanistan many times. one of the big highlights from the report is the log jam for translators to obtain approval. the chief of mission has to okay from the state department, but only 11% of the current applicants have it. so why the hold up? most of them don't have papers because passports were burned by the embassy when kabul was falling. but they were left without any kind of credentials to prove they work for the state department. >> you're right. that's one of the major reasons that we haven't been able to get those afghans back to the united states. unfortunately, when th...

Frustrated that nobody is held accountable. why doesn't the state department say, you know what? we did a really good job on this and that. i know that they feel good about how many people they got out at the end there. we failed on this front and that front. for that reason, we have reassigned this person or this person is no longer played because it's their job to receive the siv program. there were failures in prior administrations. why is there no one held accountable for what happened, which is clear as you say to anybody that has eyes and watched this thing unfold? >> no, i totally agree...

Nine months going back to march of 2020. the program was basically in a stall. within two weeks of taking office, we restarted the siv process in kabul. on february 4th, one of the first executive orders issued by president biden directed us to immediately review the siv program to identify causes of undue delay and find ways to process siv applications more quickly. this spring i directed significant addition at resources to the program. expanding the people in washington processing applications from 10 to 50, doubling the number of adjudicators in kabul in our embassy there. even as many emb...