A spokesperson for House speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized minority leader Kevin McCarthy’s demand to bring Congress back to session after the Kabul explosions, describing the request as a “distraction”.
Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, Drew Hammill, said on Twitter, “Right now, American heroes are risking & giving their lives to execute an extraordinarily dangerous evacuation, & the Minority Leader wants to defund the mission & tie the Commander in Chief’s hands in the middle of the most dangerous days of the operation.”