White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday would not commit to the US continuing efforts to get 11,000 Americans out of Afghanistan if they were still there at the end of the month.
‘Can you offer any guarantee to Americans and Afghan allies that if they remain there past the end of month us troops will help them evacuate?’ a reporter asked the press secretary in her first briefing in six days.
‘Our focus right now is on doing the work at hand, the task at hand. That is day by day getting as many American citizens, as many SIV applicants, as many members of the vulnerable population who are eligible to be evacuated to the airport and out on planes,’ the press secretary said.