Reactions to Reps. Seth Moulton (D-MA) and Peter Meijer (R-MI) Afghanistan trip:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "This is deadly serious. I do not want members to go...It was not in my view a good idea."
Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby: "We were not aware of this visit. We are obviously not encouraging VIP visits to a very tense, dangerous and dynamic situation...They certainly took time away from what we had been planning to do that day."
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy: "I just watched Speaker Pelosi answer that question. I think that's the most time she's spent on Afghanistan all week and it offended me…They shouldn't go, but these people are veterans…I don't think it's smart for others to go. You put yourself, not yourself in harm's way but you're putting Americans in harm's way if the military has to protect you in which they will do and should not."
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki: "We were not aware when they were en route...this is not the time to travel to Afghanistan. Our focus, our objectives, our resources needs to be laser focused..."
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