Republicans Brush Off House Democrats’ Latest Plan to Close Guantanamo Bay

Flags fly at half-staff in honor of the U.S. service members and other victims killed in the terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, at Camp Justice on Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba on Aug. 29, 2021. Alex Brandon/AP Photo

A Democratic-led effort in the House of Representatives to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility is facing ridicule from Republicans, who have expressed opposition to the plan.

The Guantanamo Bay detention facility is a U.S territory in Cuba that came into existence in January 2002 under President George W. Bush in the early days of the so-called “War on Terror.”