Fed Must Protect Afghan Assets From Taliban, GOP Lawmaker Says

A Republican lawmaker is calling on the Federal Reserve to make sure that official assets held by Afghanistan in the U.S. don’t fall into the hands of the Taliban.

Representative Andy Barr made the request in a letter to New York Fed President John Williams, citing military advances by the Taliban that are threatening the government of President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul amid the U.S. troop withdrawal from the country.