BOO$T FOR TRANSLATORS

President Biden wants to use $100 million in emergency cash to help resettle thousands of Afghan translators in the United States, according to a report.

The White House also released another $200 million of inventory for US agencies required to meet those same needs, Reuters reported.

Around 2,500 people who worked as translators or provided other services for the US have been granted special immigration visas and are expected to be brought to a military base in Fort Lee, Va., for final processing.

“Such assistance may be provided on a bilateral or multilateral basis as appropriate, including through contributions to international organizations and through funding to other nongovernmental organizations, governments, and United States departments and agencies,” Biden wrote in a memo authorizing the funds.

The refugees would potentially face retaliation from the Taliban because of their assistance during the US war effort.

The first refugee group will arrive by the end of the month. A total of 18,000 visas are currently being processed.

Biden has promised a final withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by the end of August. The US has had a presence in the country since the 9/11 terrorist attacks almost 20 years ago, making the war the longest in US history.

The decision for a final pullout has not come without controversy. During an interview last week, former President George W. Bush leveled a rare criticism of one of his successors calling Biden’s exit decision a mistake, warning “the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad.”

Bush first initiated hostilities in the country in 2001, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. At the time the country’s ruling Taliban was providing safe haven to al Qaeda terror boss Osama bin Laden who masterminded the attack.

Taliban fighters have reoccupied large swaths of Afghanistan as US soldiers have pulled out, with many fearing a return to civil war later this year.