US President Joe Biden came back to the White House from the presidential retreat at Camp David to address the US withdrawal from Afghanistan that has resulted in total collapse of the government in Kabul and a Taliban takeover.
Biden departed for Camp David on Thursday and was scheduled to stay there until Wednesday. White House press secretary Jen Psaki took the week off, according to out-of-office responses to email inquiries by media outlets over the weekend. With almost all of Afghanistan under Taliban control now, and the evacuation from Kabul airport interrupted by crowds of Afghans desperate to climb on board the departing planes, the administration’s plans appear to have changed.
