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Rep. Michael McCaul of R-Texas believes that people have only four ways to end time on Capitol Hill.
“You could die, you could lose, you could be sued, you could stand out, it was the fourth door,” he told Fox News Digital. “And I think the fourth door looks attractive.”
For McCall, ranking No. 1 means ending more than two decades of career in Texas’s tenth congressional district. He served as the highest Republican on the Diplomatic and Homeland Security Committee, serving two and three terms respectively, the maximum allowable time for members of the House Republican Party. He didn’t run again in the middle of November.
Texas Republican will be 64 when he leaves Congress by the end of 2026, and he still hopes to have an impact on the United States National Security When he left the time ball.
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Rep. Mike McCaul of R-Texas walked out on the House floor of the U.S. Capitol building on October 17, 2023. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
He told Fox News Digital that he expressed interest in the Trump administration as an Australian ambassador.
“As an Australian ambassador, I think I’m very suitable for me – what I do there after Aukus, AI, advanced weapon systems – the job I do can be used as an ambassador, but it can also play a role in the company’s board of directors that do it.”
Aukus refers to a trilateral security agreement between the United States, Britain and Australia, widely regarded as a response to China’s encroachment in the Pacific region.
McCaul is one of the Australian Parliament chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee and co-chairs of the Friends of Australia’s Caucus.
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“I think I’ll be good at it. I mean, I know all the players,” he said. “I know their problems. But at the same time, these quotes are coming in – I have a year and a half. I’ll figure it out.”
Among other possibilities after Congress, he said, “most of the offers, they are in the field of national security.”
“I also have several offers in the intellectual field, too. So I’m still in there. There are a few think tanks and you can still get TV on TV. I can still be a relevant voice on the issues I care about. In a way, I can focus more on my passion for it, rather than getting along with a lot of other things.”
U.S. Army soldiers were assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 17, 2021 to patrol Hamid Karzai International Airport. (Senior Pilot Taylor Kruel/US Air Force via Reuters)
He has also been engaged in many issues during his more than 20 years in Congress.
“It’s a lifelong honor – in one of the most dangerous times, with the rise of the ISIS caliph and all external operations that we want to stop, establishing a cybersecurity agency has chaired the Department of Homeland Security. I did TSA Precheck and Global Group. The fall of Afghanistan,” McCall said.
“Everything I did with Ukraine after that [Russian President Vladimir Putin] Invasion – The emergency wartime supplementary bill may be the highlight because if we do not pass, I think Russia will occupy Ukraine today, they will be in Moldova and Georgia, perhaps threatening the Baltic states and Poland. ”
The senior lawmaker has been a voice of leadership in the Republican foreign policy, which is increasingly the isolationist – McCall said the matter has to do with him.
“I think it’s a very dangerous mentality. It didn’t work in 1939 and there are a lot of similarities today. [President Donald Trump] This is correct. I think he wants other NATO countries to impose secondary sanctions, which should be a team effort. ” he said.
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“But I think there are some people in the government that are very important – I agree with the United States first, but it’s not about sacrificing our responsibility to lead the world. I think it’s dangerous if they think America is first.”
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When asked if he regrets his time in Congress, McCall said he was proud of his work on Capitol Hill.
“There was a time when you knew there were possibilities, but I wouldn’t trade everything I did,” he said. “I felt very peaceful about it because I felt like I was going to top. I was on two main committees. I always worked. There was a good expression – I would miss the clown, but I wouldn’t miss the circus.”
