House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said a bipartisan pair of lawmakers should not have traveled to Afghanistan this week amid the chaotic and dangerous evacuation of thousands of Americans and Afghans.

“We don’t want anybody to think that this was a good idea and that they should try to follow suit,” the California Democrat told reporters in the Capitol Wednesday.

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