MICHIGAN, Oct. 2, 2024 ~ U.S. representatives Debbie Dingell (MI-6) and Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) are urging the federal government to help U.S. citizens evacuate Lebanon amid Israel‘s brutal bombardment and ground offensive of the country.
In an Instagram post made on Monday, Tlaib said her team was working on helping residents of her district evacuate, which contains one of the largest Arab American populations in the country. “As a congresswoman to a beautiful diverse district, I shouldn’t have to beg our own government to help its own citizens,” she wrote in a separate post on Wednesday. “We are abandoning American citizens. This is a complete failure on the part of the State Department.”
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Oct. 2, 2024 ~ Lloyd Jackson, Jamie Edmonds, and Chris Renwick talk with former U.S. Congressman and Iraq War veteran Peter Meijer about the escalation towards all-out war in the Middle East, following Iran firing retaliatory ballistic missile strikes at Israel, and what he thinks the United States‘ response should be.
(CONTINUED) Fellow Democrat Dingell also called on the State Department to arrange evacuation flights, according to a statement to CBS News. Over 1,000 people have died in Lebanon since Israel began its recent round of bombing.
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