State Department blames Trump administration for failure to rescue Afghan partners

Former President Donald Trump’s attempt “to starve refugee programs” of needed resources contributed to the abandonment of thousands of Afghan nationals who worked for the United States, according to a prominent State Department official.

“We prioritized this program, a program that had been left in an unfortunately decrepit state by the previous administration,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters. “So this was a program that, literally from the start, we prioritized. We took from a state of decrepitude and turned into a program that was operating much more efficiently.”