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Integrity recognition: District 29 Republicans vote support, appreciation for three state senators who stayed true

Republican Party officers of House District 29 voted unanimous support of three state senators who were excluded from a caucus that was formed by lawmakers to give Democrats control of the Alaska Senate.

The three are Republicans Sen. Mike Shower of Wasilla, Sen. Shelley Hughes of the Mat-Su/Palmer, and Sen. Robb Myers of North Pole, all of whom were not asked to join the 17-member caucus that puts Democrats in charge of most committees.

While the Alaska Senate has 11 Republicans elected, the caucus in charge of the body has nine Democrats and eight Republicans.

The resolution notes that eight Republican senators abandoned their three colleagues and aligned themselves with the anti-development, pro-tax, inflationary policies of President Biden.

The officers note that this leftist-controlled coalition is “fundamentally at odds with the interests of the residents of district 29 and Alaskans across the state,” and that it is a binding caucus that will put the interests of the Democrat majority over the interests of District 29 residents.

The three who were not included in the caucus remained faithful to the voters as well as 65% of Alaskans who chose Republicans as their first choice during the most recent election.

Shower, Hughes, and Myers are focused on fixing the state’s long-standing fiscal problems and moving the state forward, the resolution states.

The three received the commendation and thanks of District 29: “Now therefore be it resolved that District 29 of the Alaska Republican Party is exceedingly proud of the principle, character and integrity shown by our Senator, Mike Shower, and That District 29 of the Alaska Republican Party commends Senators Shower, Hughes, and Myers for standing up for the will of their constituents above that of the liberal-led, Democrat dominated State Senate.”

District 27 and 28 Republicans have asked Sen. David Wilson of Wasilla to renounce his membership in the binding Democrat-controlled caucus. It has become clear, however, that he does not intend to run for reelection for this deeply conservative district and, as of yet, has not left the caucus.

Vote remote: Peltola votes by proxy on Respect for Marriage Act, and national defense bill

Congresswoman Mary Peltola has been voting by proxy, which means not showing up in Congress on the floor to cast her ballot.

Since winning on Nov. 23, she cast a vote through two different colleagues on two different occasions:

Reps. Luis Correa of California and Haley Stevens of Michigan did her work for her.

On both of her official proxy letters, Peltola cites the “ongoing public health emergency” as her reason for having someone else cast her vote for her.

“I am unable to physically attend proceedings in the House Chamber due to the ongoing public health emergency and I hereby grant the authority to cast my vote by proxy to the Honorable Haley Stevens (Michigan), who has agreed to serve as my proxy,” Peltola wrote to the House Clerk on Nov. 29.

She used the same language on Dec. 8, awarding her proxy to Correa for her vote in favor of H. R. 8404, the “Respect for Marriage Act.” See documentation here.

She awarded her vote to Correa for the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act, H.R. 7776.

Peltola wasn’t sick, and she wasn’t staying home. She attended parties and had her picture taken with friends and supporters. But she was taking advantage of a Democrat-led rule in the House that allows members to award their vote to a friendly colleague to cast for them.

As the Covid pandemic swept the nation, Congress changed rules in January of 2021, so that members could simply file a letter stating that they can’t physically attend proceedings. In August, Speaker Nancy Pelosi extended the proxy rule to the end of September, so that her members could campaign or go camping, rather than show up for work.

In her letter, Pelosi stated that the extension was due to the “public health emergency.”

“In light of the attached notification by the Sergeant-at-Arms, in consultation with the Office of Attending Physician, that a public health emergency is in effect due to a novel coronavirus, I am hereby extending the ‘covered period’ designated on January 4, 2021, pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, until September 26, 2022,” Pelosi wrote in August. By then, more than 5,600 proxy letters had been filed by congressional members with the House Clerk, many of them so that members could simply take vacations.

Last month, Pelosi extended the proxy vote rule until the end of December — nearly until the end of her term as Speaker.

Members of the House GOP leadership team say they plan to end the practice when they take over in January. Incoming Speaker Kevin McCarthy said in September, “We will immediately reopen the Capitol and end the Democrat proxy voting and remote work schemes that have inflicted untold damage to this institution.”

Biden’s nuke expert, Anchorage Assembly consultant, and apparent luggage thief, is ‘no longer a DOE employee’

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The man in charge of spent nuclear fuel for the Department of Energy has left the administration.

“Sam Brinton is no longer a DOE employee. By law, the Department of Energy cannot comment further on personnel matters,” the Department said.

Brinton has been accused in two separated instances of stealing luggage from airport baggage carousels since he was appointed in June as deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy.

Brinton, who calls himself gender-fluid, or not having a set gender, was the person who advised the Anchorage Assembly’s leftist majority on the ordinance that prohibits Anchorage counselors from dissuading youth clients from their various sexual impulses. According to the ordinance passed in nearly secrecy in 2020, therapists in Alaska’s largest city may not try to help youth who have sexual identity issues. Or rather, the therapists can only confirm their new identity, not counsel them about why they are confused.

Brinton was the consultant, along with the Trevor Project, a nonprofit that encourages gender confusion in young people.

He has two degrees from MIT, but also a documented history of teaching classes in kink sex, and has posed as a dominatrix personality with men dressed up as dogs.

By September, it became clear that Brinton has more confusion than just gender confusion. He was caught on camera taking luggage that belonged another person from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. He has admitted that he took the luggage, but said he was confused, and thought it was his luggage, although he had traveled to the airport without luggage. Later, he confessed to taking the luggage.

Last week, Las Vegas authorities identified him as a luggage thief at that city’s airport as well.

According to police, the bag that Brinton allegedly stole from the Harry Reid International Airport was on the carousel with other bags from an arriving flight from Dulles International Airport on July 6. The suitcase, a hard-shell “Away” brand bag, was valued at $320, but with the contents, it had a value of more than $3,670, which included makeup, jewelry, clothing and toiletries.

Police who reviewed the tape said there were several nonverbal cues, and body language displayed by the suspect, which caught his attention. “Brinton pulled the victim’s luggage from the carousel and examined the tag. Then placed it back on the carousel, looking in all directions for anyone who might be watching, or might approach. Pulling it back off the carousel and demonstrating the same behavior by looking around before walking away with it quickly,” the police said.

Brinton was only identified as the suspect in Las Vegas after another news article showed him as a suspect in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in September. Police compared the video they have of him in Las Vegas with a social media post he made of himself, and he was wearing the same rainbow shirt and had other physical characteristics as the thief they were seeking.

Crypto-con Sam Bankman-Fried arrested on the eve of his testimony before congressional committee

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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried won’t be appearing in the House Financial Services Committee chaired by Rep. Maxine Waters of California on Tuesday after all.

The cryptocurrency kingpin has been arrested by Bahamian authorities, at the request of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and will have his first court appearance in Nassau on Tuesday on multiple felony charges.

An extradition and trial in a New York federal court is expected to hold the cryptocurrency scammer accountable for crimes of wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy, and money laundering, according to the New York Times, which has sources close to the matter and which broke the story Monday.

Meanwhile, the indictment against Bankman-Fried, who lost billions of investors’ dollars and gave tens of millions of dollars to Democrat candidates, including Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola, political action groups, and news organizations, will be unsealed on Tuesday, said Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Bankman-Fried filed for bankruptcy on behalf of FTX on Nov. 11 as his crypto-kingdom unraveled, and its since become clear that he was running the organization with no accepted financial controls, and was moving funds back and forth between the web of companies he controlled.

Now, the Securities and Exchange Commission also is preparing charges against Bankman-Fried, for “violations of our securities laws, which will be filed publicly tomorrow [Tuesday] in the Southern District of New York,” according to enforcement director Gurbir Grewal.

Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis said, “Earlier this evening, Bahamian authorities arrested Samuel Bankman-Fried at the request of the U.S. government, based on a sealed indictment filed by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time.”

The Bahamas and the United States have a shared interest in “holding accountable all individuals associated with FTX who may have betrayed the public trust and broken the law,” he said in his statement.

“While the United States is pursuing criminal charges against SBF individually, The Bahamas will continue its own regulatory and criminal investigations into the collapse of FTX, with the continued cooperation of its law enforcement and regulatory partners in the United States and elsewhere,” Davis said.

Dan Fagan hanging up the microphone on the popular Dan Fagan Show

Dan Fagan said it was “liberating” to turn in his 30-day resignation today. After the end of the year, Fagan, who is a household name in Alaska, will call it good on his four-year run hosting the Dan Fagan Show on 650-KENI.

“I know it was the right thing,” Fagan said. For four years he has hosted the popular morning show that features a wide-ranging conversation among Alaskans on the issues of the day, whether it’s the Permanent Fund, elections, or the shortcomings of lawmakers.

Before he launched the show, he had a conservative news site, the Alaska Standard, and he hosted a popular talk show at KFQD for several years. He also was a political reporter for Channel 2, and taught journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Fagan moved to New Orleans a several years ago, which made it easier to host a show that started at 5:30 am Alaska time, five days a week.

There is no word yet of who might replace him in that 3.5-hour slot.

Over the past year, Must Read Alaska‘s Suzanne Downing has been a regular guest on the show typically twice a week, as the two would discuss politics in Alaska and at the national level. Fagan has also written many columns for Must Read Alaska, and may continue to do so on occasion in the future — between golf games.

Coming soon: Twitter’s Fauci files are ‘big time,’ as Elon Musk says nation’s Covid doc lied to Congress

Elon Musk teased that the Twitter Files that pertain to censorship of Covid-19 information will be released soon, “big time.” He also tweeted today a joke that his pronouns are “Prosecute/Fauci.”

It appears that Twitter was not only involved in rigging national elections by suppressing information about Hunter Biden’s laptop and coordinating suppression of speech with federal agencies such as the FBI, there is now evidence that the government worked with Twitter to smother the voices of those who questioned the official Covid narrative.

Musk’s tweet joke about his pronouns led to a scolding from one Twitter user, retired astronaut Scott Kelly, who begged him not to make fun of LGBTQ people with pronoun jokes, and added that “Dr. Fauci is a dedicated public servant whose sole motivation was saving lives.”

Musk was not in the mood to be lectured by Kelly: “I strongly disagree. Forcing your pronouns upon others when they didn’t ask, and implicitly ostracizing those who don’t, is neither good nor kind to anyone. As for Fauci, he lied to Congress and funded gain-of-function research that killed millions of people. Not awesome imo.”

In fact, it’s been known for over a year that Fauci lied to Congress about the gain-of-function research that the National Institutes of Health had funded at the Wuhan laboratories in China.

Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is part of the NIH, told Congress in May of 2021 that the NIH “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

But Richard Ebright, board of governors professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University and laboratory director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, told Newsweek last year that documents show unequivocally that NIH grants were used to fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, Newsweek wrote, referencing The Intercept blog, a leftist publication that published the grant proposals.

“The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH director, Francis Collins, and the NIAID director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement in Wuhan are untruthful,” Ebright said. “Multiple sections of the grant proposals and grant progress reports make it clear that the grants funded gain-of-function research of concern in Wuhan.”

The Intercept, which is heavily funded by crypto crook Sam Bankman-Fried, released two documents last year, which can be seen here and here.

Read the Newsweek report on the gain-of-function work funded by NIH.

Thus, the question about whether Fauci lied has been debated for well over a year. Now the question is, what more does Twitter have in its files to show government collusion on the Covid virus and vaccine.

Former CIA Director John O. Brennan, who served as head of the spook agency under President Barack Obama, replied to Musk on Twitter, “Dr. Fauci is a national hero who will be remembered for generations to come for his innate goodness & many contributions to public health Despite your business success, you will be remembered most for fueling public hate & divisions. You may have money, but you have no class.”

Brennan, the retired spy, also wrote it’s time to curb free speech: “Good people in democracies need a more effective way to prevent attention-craving, emotionally immature, & highly devious individuals, esp those of means, from being socially, culturally, & politically destructive. We certainly seem to have far too many of them lately.”

The fourth release of of the Twitter Files on Saturday by journalist Michael Shellenberger shows how the leftist management team at Twitter changed company rules on the fly in order to blacklist former President Donald Trump.

Assembly leftists jump on mayor over Snowmageddon plow-out

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Anchorage Assembly members told an Anchorage Daily News reporter they were not informed about the shortage of snow plow operators, but the record shows otherwise.

Anchorage Daily News reported the snowmageddon situation as a lack of planning.

The mayor’s office told the Assembly in October it would need more funds for snow clearing this winter, due to higher fuel costs and other cost drivers. The Assembly was also told there is a serious shortage of workers. Later, the Assembly was told that even with more money for plowing, there are just not enough workers.

No one knew, in October or November, that there would be an historic snowfall in early December that would coincide with the historic challenge of getting licensed commercial truck operators.

“We weren’t briefed on this situation,” Assemblywoman Meg Zaletel falsely told the newspaper. The Assembly has been told on the record and in writing that there is a shortage of workers. During the budget work sessions with the Assembly in October, Public Works Director Lance Wilber advised the Assembly on the staffing challenges. The municipality, like the school district, has a hard time getting commercially licensed drivers.

Assemblywoman Austin Quinn-Davidson also falsely stated that the Assembly wasn’t informed, but her lack of attendance at meetings might be part of the reason she doesn’t know what occurred at budget work sessions.

Anchorage has been conducting round-the-clock snow clearing operations since Tuesday, since the “snowmageddon” winter event that dumped over 24 inches of snow in two days. The snow plowing operations are run by a city streets manager who has over 27 years experience removing snow from Anchorage streets.

Anchorage plowing crews work the main arteries first, and sometimes that takes several passes to keep them clear. Then, they move into the collector streets (larger roads that feed into neighborhoods) and finally into neighborhood streets.

With the latest storm, which started Sunday afternoon, the Anchorage School District has announced schools will be closed on Monday.

One thing residents don’t always understand is that some of the main roads in Anchorage are maintained by the State of Alaska, not the city.

To view which streets are managed by the city or state, visit this link. Information on the State Department of Transportation roads are also found here.

The city has had 21-28 graders on the streets continuously, 24 hours a day, since the last snowfall on Tuesday, and has nine sidewalk clearing operators. Those sidewalk-clearing operators also need to have commercial drivers licenses.

One of the challenges of the workforce challenge is that under the Biden Administration, it now costs up to $8,000 to get a commercial drivers license, and sometime it can take months. Biden Administration policies have made CDL drivers scarce across the country, with all trucking and commercial driving operations and retailers suffering. It’s the same problem that has led to a lack of availability of goods around the country, with worker shortages contributing to the supply chain crisis.

Another reason for the worker shortage is the legalization of cannabis, and the fact that many workers cannot pass a drug test now.

Unions are a big part of the worker shortage problem, because they run as cartels. Unions won’t allow some operators to work in some job classifications, even if there is a proven need. The city is bringing in new apprentices to work some of these jobs, which have been hard to fill, and the city has asked the unions for assistance in reassigning qualified CDL drivers to run plowing equipment during large plow-out events. The mayor could probably get around the union cartels by declaring an emergency.

The city has brought more contractors in to haul snow, including an extra 25-30 trucks a night working the snow hauling.

“Our MOA crews and contractors have been running 24/7 operations since Tuesday. We are grateful for the partnership and cooperation from Local 302, Local 71, the Teamsters, and our numerous contractors to plow out our municipal streets. We also recognize the challenges the State of Alaska has with resources as well, and we appreciate residents’ patience as we move into our next storm, which we anticipate may bring another 10-16 inches of snow,” said Amy Demboski, Anchorage’s city manager.

To see the latest updates on which roads and sidewalks have been plowed, please go to the MOA Snow Plow Hub. The page is updated at the end of each shift.

Sen. Ron Johnson convenes panel on C-vax side effects

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By LINDA BOYLE, MSN, DM, ALASKA COVID ALLIANCE

By now, most Americans have been inundated with information on the Covid virus.  But the actual facts have been nearly impossible to determine.

Do you believe the government’s story?  Do you believe the healthcare community?  

Or do you believe those who have pushed back against the federal government’s version of the virus’ origin? Why has there been no open dialogue in the health care community about this virus, as there normally has been for past viruses? 

Initially out of fear, many Americans took either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccinations. The government told Americans to get the jab, or they may die, or they could infect their elderly relatives, who could perish. Many were threatened with loss of their jobs.

Schools were closed to protect grandma and grandpa. Businesses were closed to protect the citizens. Churches were closed because they could be closed. Masking was mandated.

Yet very little was known about this virus. Americans only knew that their government and mainstream media said they should be very afraid.

And Americans were afraid. After all, loved ones died alone in hospitals. The public trusted and believed the health care community.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) convened a panel of health-care experts, “The Second Opinion,” to discuss the vaccine side-effects, early treatment protocols and the long-term effects of the vaccine. The first meeting was in January, and the second meeting was held Wednesday.

Sen. Johnson led the discussion, “COVID-19 Vaccines: What They Are, How They Work, and Possible Causes of Injuries,” to shed light on the current state of knowledge surrounding the vaccine and the path forward. Medical experts and doctors who specialize in Covid-19 vaccine research and treatment joined him, including Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Peter McCullough.

Virology experts explained that because this virus is constantly and rapidly mutating, we are chasing a different virus with the same mRNA vaccine. That is not effective medicine, they said.

Those alpha and delta viruses no longer exist. Even the omicron mutation morphed into a different form.

But the government will not admit that its vaccines are not effective on stopping the new virus variants or preventing viral infection.

Now many people are dealing with the side-effects of the vaccines.  The federal government has not messaged this at all. Instead, vaccine injury appears to be a secret between it and Big Pharma.

But there is available information in the V-safe database. This database has a checklist for you to fill out. The checklist should contain all the adverse reactions from vaccines. But it doesn’t. It doesn’t even include myocarditis, which is a major known side-effect, especially for teenage boys.

The federal government only wanted side-effects following a one-week post-injection period. It did not want any data on longer side-effects.

The data shows that 7.7% of those who were vaccinated needed medical care for some effect from the jab. That is one of every 13 persons.

The UK has stopped the vaccine program for those under age 50. Denmark has stopped the jab for those under 12 years. But America just keeps on jabbing with an ineffective vaccine, regardless of the data.

Dr. Harvey Risch, Professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, said the risk of Covid mortality increases with age. But how bad is the risk?  

This graphic shows that risk based on age. Underlying conditions, such as diabetes, lead to higher mortality.  But Dr. Risch stated the overall risk is about the same as a standard flu season. 

Note that the risk is minimal for those under the age of 50.

There was no information from the Centers for Disease Control and prevention on early treatment of Covid. Why didn’t the CDC recommend early treatment options including off-label drugs such as Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, Vitamin D3, steroids, etc? 

Big Pharma teamed up with government bureaucrats to control the conversation and define early Covid treatment as misinformation. That early treatment would have saved thousands of lives according to Dr. Pierre Kory, president of the US Frontline Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance.

Dr. Kory, who is a pulmonary specialist from Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center in Wisconsin, said that at the start of this pandemic the government recommendation to those who became infected with Covid was to simply stay home and take Tylenol until “our lips turn blue.”

“We are telling the world this is the solution to COVID-19,” said Kory, speaking of early treatment, use of Ivermectin, Hydroxycholoroquine, and other treatments that reduce the severity of the virus early.

No effort was made to provide off-label use for drugs that have worked in the early treatment of other viruses. In fact, drugs such as Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine seemed to have been anathema for the mainstream healthcare community. 

Dr. Paul Marik, renown pulmonologist, (formerly Professor of Medicine and Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School) said Western doctors should have adopted these drugs starting in March of 2020. That alone would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives, he said.

“We’re not allowed to treat patients with safe, effective, cheap, repurposed drugs,” Marik said. Instead, the hospitals were in favor of Big Pharma control.

Dr. Marik said that 40% of drugs used in hospitals are off-label drugs. That’s OK for a variety of illnesses, it was not OK for treating Covid. 

As a practicing pulmonologist, he was not even allowed to give Vitamin C in the hospital to assist in Covid treatment. The only drugs he was allowed to use were FDA-approved drugs. 

The hospital wanted him to use Remdesivir, which is a drug Marik said is toxic and ineffective. It’s a drug that increases the risk of renal failure by two-fold, and increases the risk of dying by 4%.

Click here to read a previous Dr. Marik’s presentation on Remdesivir.

Furthermore, any discussion concerning vitamin D3 and its use at helping to protect people from severe Covid was not allowed by the medical establishment. 

Even Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services did not recommend the use of vitamin D3 to stave off Covid and still does not make the use of vitamin D3 easily available information on its webpage.

Dr. Paul Alexander, an expert in evidence-based medicine, said studies were done in countries that rapidly vaccinated all age groups. These studies showed that the more Covid vaccines given in a short period of time led to increased negative efficacy. Those vaccinated are being infected repeatedly. 

If society keeps vaccinating for Covid, it will increase the amount of Covid and increase infections, he said. If the country had not vaccinated in this way, it probably would have herd immunity, making Covid no longer an issue. 

Dr. Janci Lindsay, who has her doctorate in biochemistry, expressed concern about where the gene therapy (mRNA) goes when injected into an arm. Initially, scientists said it would stay in the arm.   

However, the mRNA has been distributed throughout the body with uptake seen in the brain, spleen, endocrine system, ovaries and testes.  This uptake in ovaries and testes is of particular concern.  

Dr. Lindsay said it could lead to infertility issues and potentially reproductive harm. Of utmost concern, Dr. Lindsay said it can be passed on as inadvertent gene therapy if in sperm, and may have a profound effect on future generations.

Dr. Lindsay stated these gene therapies should not be used in reproductive age people.

Watch the presentation at this link.

Linda Boyle is a member of the Alaska Covid Alliance.

House GOP pledges investigation of Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal that left 13 American service members dead

By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE

House Oversight Republicans pledged to use their newfound majority to hold President Joe Biden “accountable” for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan last year.

That withdrawal, the subject of much controversy, left 13 U.S. service members dead, billions of dollars of military equipment behind, and plunged Afghanistan into chaos as the Taliban quickly took power.

U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., was selected to chair the Oversight Committee and pledged in his acceptance to dig into what went wrong in Afghanistan and who is responsible. That investigation is one of several piquing Republicans’ interest as they lead the House for the next two years.

“The destructive path paved by the Biden Administration ends when Republicans have the gavel in January,” he said. “We will continue our investigations into the national security threat posed by the Biden family’s influence peddling and shady business schemes, President Biden’s border crisis, COVID origins and U.S. taxpayer dollars used to fund dangerous research in Wuhan, the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, President Biden’s energy crisis, waste and mismanagement of pandemic relief funds, and more.”

Comer did not waste time on the Afghanistan front. The same day as his chairmanship announcement, he sent a letter to several Biden administration officials demanding relevant documents, information and communications.

“It has been over a year since the Biden Administration’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal and the American people have not received any answers about this national security and humanitarian catastrophe. U.S. servicemen and women lost their lives, thousands of Americans were abandoned, billions of taxpayer dollars are still unaccounted for, military equipment fell into the hands of the Taliban, progress for Afghan women has stalled, and the entire region is under hostile Taliban control,” Comer said. “Under a Republican majority, the Biden Administration’s obstruction of this investigation will be met with the power of the gavel. We owe it to the American people to provide answers, transparency, and accountability.”

Recently released Gallup polling shows that Afghanis report a spike in suffering since the U.S. withdrawal. As The Center Square previously reported, Gallup released polling data of Afghanis earlier this month, which found that 98% of surveyed Afghanis “rate their life so poorly that they are considered suffering” while a quarter say their life right now is “the worst possible.” The poll also found that 39% say they expect their life in five years will be “the worst possible.”

“Between 2021 and 2022, the percentage of Afghans who have been unable to afford food they and their families need shot up 11 points to 86%,” Gallup said. “This is not only a new record high for Afghanistan, but it also statistically ties the world record for any country over the past 16 years (87% set by the Central African Republic in 2010).”

Critics have blasted Biden for Afghanistan as well as Ukraine, saying sending such large sums overseas without enough oversight is a recipe for disaster.

“Supporting our allies doesn’t mean blindly sending tens of billions of dollars with ZERO accountability,” U.S. Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., a veteran, wrote on Twitter. “Biden’s ‘shoot first and ask questions later’ approach is exactly how we wound up with the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan.”

Casey Harper is a senior reporter for the Washington, D.C. Bureau. He previously worked for The Daily Caller, The Hill, and Sinclair Broadcast Group. A graduate of Hillsdale College, Casey’s work has also appeared in Fox News, Fox Business, and USA Today.