U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday the Biden administration was prioritizing evacuating Americans and Afghans working for the U.S. Agency for Global Media and the National Endowment for Democracy from Afghanistan. The effort comes as the U.S. weighs how to send millions of dollars in aid directly to Afghans and not to the de facto Taliban government. VOA’s congressional correspondent Katherine Gypson has more.