(The Center Square) – After President Joe Biden’s deadly withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan on August 30, 2021, Congress passed an emergency government spending bill that included $6 billion to expand an Afghan refugee resettlement program.

The majority of Republicans voted against it: 35 in the U.S. Senate and 175 in the U.S. House.

However, 34 House Republicans and 15 Senate Republicans voted for it, enabling the bill to head to President Joe Biden, who signed it into law.

The $6 billion Afghan resettlement program included a special visa used by Afghan nationals who were released into the U.S. and arrested for a range of crimes.

One just pleaded not guilty after shooting two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., killing one. One pleaded guilty to planning an Election D

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