“Look, I had a basic decision to make,” he said at a press conference. “And I decided to end the war.”

President Joe Biden said he believed the U.S. military could evacuate all American citizens and allies before troops leave at the end of the month.

“The reason they haven’t quote-unquote ‘exercised the right’ is because they don’t have the money,” said James Miervaldis, chairman of No One Left Behind.

In his first interview since the fall of Kabul, the president once again shifted the blame onto Afghans and Donald Trump for the rapid Taliban takeover.

“Stop asking questions about immigration law niceties and get out of Afghanistan,” Joshua Goldstein, an immigration lawyer in Los Angeles, texted one client.

“We didn’t need to be in this position,” said Rep. Jason Crow, an Afghanistan veteran who was one of 20 lawmakers who urged Biden to create a task force to protect Afghan allies.

The Democratic caucus now feels that the White House “really screwed this up,” according to a Democratic official, with anger focused on Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan.