Also among the officials asked to resign are Heidi Stirrup former WH liaison to the DOJ who was banned from DOJ building after she attempted to access sensitive information about possible election fraud in December 2020...
...and retired Col. Douglas Macgregor, a former ambassador pick and Pentagon official with a history of controversial comments. cnn.com/2021/09/08/pol…
Beans wakes on the Sept. 7th. Our world had changed. Two major surgeries, one life saving. A cancer diagnosis and our lives shattered forever. Unfair to us, but mostly to her. I share for awareness. That there’s still much to be done.
Biden: "I stand squarely behind my decision," to leave Afghanistan.
Biden:"It is wrong to order American troops to step up when Afghanistan's own armed forces would not."
Biden: "How many more generations of America's daughters and sons would you have me send to fight Afghanistan's civil war when Afghan troops will not? How many more lives, American lives, is it worth, how many endless rows of headstones at Arlington national cemetery?"
WaPo:”The Taliban’s blitz across Afghanistan pushed closer to Kabul on Saturday as US diplomats appealed to the militants to stop the advance or risk conflict with thousands of US troops flooding into the capital to evacuate diplomats and other personnel.” washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/…
Washington Post reports the US is asking the Taliban to not enter Kabul until all US evacuations are complete to avoid confrontation with US troops.
“While the Americans want at all costs to avoid a direct confrontation between the Taliban and U.S. troops, the extent to which the Afghan military will resist the militants’ entry into Kabul is unclear.” washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/…
A 2018 NCCS survey of 449 families found 95 % said their child’s cancer caused a financial burden on their family. A 2009 study in the American Journal of Medicine found that 14.6% of medical bankruptcies were caused by the illness of a child.
“I got a cold call from H.R. that said, ‘You’re terminated effective immediately and all your benefits expire at midnight.’ We went from 50K a year to zero,”
One parent told me, of when her unpaid medical leave ran out.