‘It Is Not a Day For Politics’ Psaki Responds to Reporter Asking About Two GOP Senators Calling For Biden to Resign

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki held her daily press briefing after President Joe Biden held a press conference, a number of hours the terrorist attacks in Afghanistan.

A reporter asked Psaki for the White House’s response to the two Republican Senators who have called for Biden to resign over the attacks.

Psaki downplayed the suggestion and asserted, “This is a day where U.S. Servicemembers, 12 of them lost their lives, at the hands of terrorists. It is not a day for politics and we would expect that any American… would stand with us.”

Psaki on Republicans calling for Biden to resign: "This is a day where US service members … lost their lives at the hands of terrorists. It is not a day for politics." pic.twitter.com/OGxfiyvkgJ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 26, 2021

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley and Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn were the two GOP senators that the reporter was referencing.

Blackburn called for Vice President Kamala Harris, Antony Blinken, Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley to resign as well in a tweet.

“Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Antony Blinken, Lloyd Austin and General Milley should all resign or face impeachment and removal from office.”

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Antony Blinken, Lloyd Austin and General Milley should all resign or face impeachment and removal from office.

— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) August 26, 2021

Hawley issued a statement and said in a tweet, “To say that today’s loss of American lives in Kabul is sickening does not begin to do justice to what has happened. It is enraging. And Joe Biden is responsible. It is now clear beyond all doubt that he has neither the capacity nor the will to lead. He must resign.”

In the statement, Hawley paid tribute to the fallen servicemembers, but also held Biden responsible for the situation, calling him a “feckless president.”

My further statement on Joe Biden’s abject failure in Afghanistan that is costing American lives by the hour pic.twitter.com/KaHVMYbKTe

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) August 26, 2021

Multiple Republican House members also called on Biden’s resignation and conference chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) declared that he was “Unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.”