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ARTICLE VIEW:
GOP Rep. Michael McCaul says he won’t seek reelection after decades
in Congress
By Sarah Davis, CNN
Updated:
1:24 PM EDT, Sun September 14, 2025
Source: CNN
Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas announced Sunday that he will
not seek re-election, bringing an end to his more than 20 years in
Congress.
“It’s been an honor to serve for over two decades in the
Congress,” McCaul said on ABC “This Week.” “I’m looking now
for a new challenge.”
The GOP congressman was first elected to the US House in 2004 and
served as a ranking member and then chair of the Foreign Affairs
Committee from 2019 to January 2025. He said he will serve the
remainder of his term before seeking new opportunities in the national
security and foreign policy space.
“I want to continue to serve the people of this country in national
security and foreign policy and do what I’ve done the last two
decades: make America stronger and the world safer,” McCaul, 63,
said.
Before his tenure in Congress, McCaul served in a top counterterrorism
role at the US attorney’s office in western Texas and was the
state’s deputy attorney general.
In Congress, he was deeply critical of the chaotic withdrawal of
American troops from Afghanistan in 2021, leading the House Foreign
Affairs Commitee in producing a report casting blame on the Biden
administration for hastily pulling out of the US’ longest war.
He has also been a vocal supporter of Ukraine amid Russia’s war,
pushing back against some of his Republican colleagues who have
expressed a wariness of sending US aid to the war-torn country.
During Sunday’s interview, McCaul backed the to NATO countries a day
earlier saying the US will issue “major” sanctions on Moscow only
when the allies agree to do the same and stop buying oil from Russia.
He said he thinks Putin has been “manipulating the president” and
not acting in good faith with the US in trying to end the war, but
added that Trump is “waking up to the fact that Putin is not
negotiating in good faith, not making concessions, and has to be dealt
with.”
“The more Putin irritates the president, I think, the better we are
in terms of defending NATO and Ukraine,” McCaul said.
NATO fighter jets multiple Russian drones in the country Wednesday,
marking the first time the military alliance fired shots since
Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
“I don’t think that was a mistake,” the congressman said. “I
think Putin is testing the resolve of NATO. He wants to see how NATO
reacts, how Poland reacts. The good news is Poland … had a great
response. They shut him down, but it shows you how aggressive Putin is
getting in the region.”
CNN’s Alison Main contributed to this report.
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