White House Corrects Biden on Number of US Citizens Remaining in Afghanistan

President Joe Biden speaks on ending the war in Afghanistan in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington on Aug. 31, 2021. Brendon Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

The White House on Tuesday corrected President Joe Biden after he said 90 percent of the Americans who were in Afghanistan and wanted to leave were evacuated before U.S. troops left the country on Aug. 30.

Biden, speaking for the first time since the withdrawal, said in remarks from the White House that “The bottom line: Ninety percent of Americans in Afghanistan who wanted to leave were able to leave.”