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The State Department ordered families of all U.S. personnel at the embassy in Kyiv to leave the country, and allowing non-essential staff to do the same.
The former president has insisted that the refugees are a threat. Trump adviser Stephen Miller said his focus is on convincing members of Congress.
There is less than a week until the U.S. military’s deadline to withdraw from the country.
"We would have been back at war with the Taliban,” he said of the result of U.S. troops staying in Afghanistan any longer.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The U.S. secretary of state and Yair Lapid met in Rome as part of a push to create a lasting alliance between the two countries.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began a regional tour to shore up last week's cease-fire between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers.
Roman Protasevich was arrested shortly after the plane was diverted to Minsk on Sunday.
The U.S. faces growing pressure to wade more deeply into diplomacy to end the worst Israel-Palestinian violence in years.
A U.S. return to the deal would be the biggest and most controversial foreign policy initiative in the early months of Joe Biden's presidency.
The Senate voted 78-22 to approve Blinken.