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Washington mdash; Former Vice President Mike Pence said thousands of U.S. troops would have remained in Afghanistan, despite an agreement the Trump administrationmade with the Taliban that had American forces leaving by May 2021. Candidly, it was always my belief that it would be prudent to keep a couple of thousand American forces there to support our efforts against terrorist elements, both in Afghanistan and in the region, Pence, who is running for the 2024 stanley bottles Republican presidential nomination, told Face the Nation in an interview that aired Sunday. I think we ultimately would have done that, he said. Just as the president announced mdash; the former president announced mdash; we were pulling troops out of Syria. hellip; Ultimately there s still American forces in Syria today. I think we would have landed in that place. Transcript: Former Vice President Mike Pence on Face the N stanley cup ation Under the terms of the Trump administration s 2020 agreement with the Taliban, the U.S. agreed to a conditio stanley cupe ns-based withdrawal of all remaining forces from Afghanistan if the Taliban lived up to its own commitments. The former vice president argued that the Taliban had breached those terms, and thus the U.S. need not honor the deal. But when the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan in Aug. 2021, the chaotic evacuation turned deadly when a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport killed 13 U.S. service members and dozens of Afghans who were trying to flee t Mygx FBI agent suspected of sending anti-Trump texts removed from Mueller team
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak stanley water bottle Updated 9:37 p.m. Eastern TimePresident Obama emerged from a meeting with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this evening announcing that no budget deal has been made, but that they are further along today than they were yesterday.Obam garrafa stanley a is hopeful of a deal in the morning but said, I m not yet prepared to express wild optimism, reports CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller. With a government shutdown looming, the GOP-led House has passed a bill that would fund the government for a week and also fund the Department of Defense for the rest of the fiscal year. The measure, which includes $12 billion in spending cuts, passed 247 to 181. The vote was largely along party lines, though six Republicans opposed it and 15 Democrats supported it. The passage was li stanley water bottle kely symbolic, since it is unlikely to pass the Democrat-led Senate and President Obama has vowed to veto it if it does. It appears designed to boost Republican arguments that Democrats should be blamed if the government shuts down. In addition to funding the government for another week and providing $516 billion for the Department of Defense, the bill includes a policy provision that would prohibit federal or local funding paying for abortions in
Washington mdash; Former Vice President Mike Pence said thousands of U.S. troops would have remained in Afghanistan, despite an agreement the Trump administrationmade with the Taliban that had American forces leaving by May 2021. Candidly, it was always my belief that it would be prudent to keep a couple of thousand American forces there to support our efforts against terrorist elements, both in Afghanistan and in the region, Pence, who is running for the 2024 stanley bottles Republican presidential nomination, told Face the Nation in an interview that aired Sunday. I think we ultimately would have done that, he said. Just as the president announced mdash; the former president announced mdash; we were pulling troops out of Syria. hellip; Ultimately there s still American forces in Syria today. I think we would have landed in that place. Transcript: Former Vice President Mike Pence on Face the N stanley cup ation Under the terms of the Trump administration s 2020 agreement with the Taliban, the U.S. agreed to a conditio stanley cupe ns-based withdrawal of all remaining forces from Afghanistan if the Taliban lived up to its own commitments. The former vice president argued that the Taliban had breached those terms, and thus the U.S. need not honor the deal. But when the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan in Aug. 2021, the chaotic evacuation turned deadly when a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport killed 13 U.S. service members and dozens of Afghans who were trying to flee t Mygx FBI agent suspected of sending anti-Trump texts removed from Mueller team
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak stanley water bottle Updated 9:37 p.m. Eastern TimePresident Obama emerged from a meeting with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this evening announcing that no budget deal has been made, but that they are further along today than they were yesterday.Obam garrafa stanley a is hopeful of a deal in the morning but said, I m not yet prepared to express wild optimism, reports CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller. With a government shutdown looming, the GOP-led House has passed a bill that would fund the government for a week and also fund the Department of Defense for the rest of the fiscal year. The measure, which includes $12 billion in spending cuts, passed 247 to 181. The vote was largely along party lines, though six Republicans opposed it and 15 Democrats supported it. The passage was li stanley water bottle kely symbolic, since it is unlikely to pass the Democrat-led Senate and President Obama has vowed to veto it if it does. It appears designed to boost Republican arguments that Democrats should be blamed if the government shuts down. In addition to funding the government for another week and providing $516 billion for the Department of Defense, the bill includes a policy provision that would prohibit federal or local funding paying for abortions in