If Republicans are serious about cutting unnecessary spending, they can start by closing the Guantanamo Bay prison — which now detains just 15 people.

United Nations experts called on Biden to issue a pardon for Abu Zbubaydah, who has been held at Guantanamo for nearly 20 years without charge.

President Joe Biden's pardons and commutations have already made his lame-duck transitional period notorious. Now, in what The New York Times described as a "secret operation" early Monday, he's nearly halved the population of the country's most notorious prison for terrorists and terrorism suspects.

The 11 transfers were the latest repatriation of detainees as the Biden administration seeks to reduce the prison population before Trump returns to office.

Eleven Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to Oman, marking yet another detainee transfer from the military prison in the final days of the Biden administration.