A bipartisan group of over 140 members of the House of Representatives has called on the State Department to use all methods at its disposal, including chartering flights, to rescue American citizens stranded in Israel; a scene eerily reminiscent to when Americans were stranded in Afghanistan beginning just two years ago.
Among those taking matters into their own hands is Army veteran Representative Cory Mills (R-FL) who has physically gone to Israel in order to help bring them home. āWe were getting a ton of requests from Americans who were stranded, who had tried to reach out to the State Department, and were getting nowhere,ā Mills told The Ingraham Angle, describing how flights had been canceled and hotel availability became nonexistent. ā[They] were really kind of off on their own. I just kind of made the decision, you know, that I needed to step up and do something.ā
āWe talk about the difference between statesmen and politicians: One acts and one talks,ā he added.Ā āUnfortunately, this isnāt my first time doing this because my team and I had conducted the first successful overland rescue out of Afghanistan that rescued a mother and three children from Amarillo, Texas,ā he said.
āMy team and I run the routes prematurely to try and make sure we can run it and see if thereās any safety issues and look at best [evacuation] areas,ā he continued. āDoing predominantly ground [evacuations] and getting to bordering countries like Jordan to ensure we can get them back to America.ā
When asked how many Americans he thought were in Israel and in need of help, he said there was a āhigh possibility that thereās large swaths of Americans across the entire country.ā
āI put all this 100% on the Biden administration,ā Mills said. āBiden released $6 billion, and itās still fungible and very easily movable income that they have. His oil revenue has gone up to $30 billion, and back when Trump was in office, it was half that.ā
āWeāre literally funding the very terrorism thatās hitting our allies and endangering Americans,ā he continued. āLeaving billions of dollars in Afghanistan thatās now finding its ways into these war zones to be utilized against Americans. The Biden administration, again, weakness invites aggression, and Iran, China, Russia, and North Korea, they are preying upon this weakness in the White House, this weakness in this administration.ā
Mills noted that President Joe Biden has prioritized āwokeness as opposed to freedoms and safeties of Americans.ā
āI can tell you right now, as an elected official, Iām not going to stand for it, and if I have to come over here and do Bidenās job, then so be it,ā he said.