McCaul provides for the outing of the congress, returns over 20 years in the Republican Party

Representative Michael McCaul, R-Texas, believes that there are only four ways that people end their time on Capitol Hill.

“You can die, you can lose, you can be charged, or you can go out, and it’s the number four door,” he told Fox News Digital. “And I think the number four door seems attractive.”

And for McCaul, going out at the top means putting an end to a career of more than two decades at the service of the 10th district of Texas. He served two relays for three mandates as the first republican on the committees on foreign affairs and internal security, respectively – the maximum authorized to members of the GOP of the Chamber. He does not run again in the middle of November.

The Texas Republican, who will be 64 years old when he left Congress at the end of 2026, still hopes to have an impact on the American national security sphere when he left.

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Representative Mike McCaul, R-Texas, leaves the floor of the House of Representatives of the American Capitol on October 17, 2023. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

He told Fox News Digital that he had expressed his interest in the Trump administration about the American ambassador to Australia.

“As an ambassador in Australia, I think I would be very well suited for me – after Aukus, do what I did there, AI, advanced weapons systems – things I worked on could play well as an ambassador, but also on a board of directors of a company that does this,” said McCaul.

Aukus refers to a trilateral security agreement between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, widely considered as a response to the encroachment of China in the Pacific.

McCaul was one of the main champions of Aukus in Congress as president of the Foreign Affairs Committee and co -chair of the Caucus Friends of Australia.

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“I think I would be good in this area. I mean, I know all the players,” he said about a potential embassy. “I know their problems. But in the meantime, these offers are coming – I have a year and a half. I will understand.”

He said about other post-Congresses, “most of the offers, they are in the national security space”.

“I have also had several offers in the intelligence space. So I would always be in it. There are a few reflection groups where you still get on television. I could always be a relevant voice on the problems that interest me. And in a way, I can focus more on what I am passionate and be a voice for that, rather than being bogged down with many other things.”

US military soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division Patrol Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 17, 2021. (Airman Senior Taylor Crul / Us Air Force via Reuters)

He worked on many of these problems he also cared in during his more than 20 years at Congress.

“Ce fut un honneur de toute une vie – présider la sécurité intérieure pendant l’une des moments les plus dangereux avec la montée en puissance du califat ISIS et de toutes les opérations externes que nous voulons arrêter, établissant l’agence de cybersécurité. J’ai fait le président de la TSA et les grands problèmes de politique étrangère de très grosses politiques étrangères comme la chute de la chute de la chute de la chute de la chute de la chute de la chute de la chute de la chute.”.

“Everything I did with Ukraine afterwards (Russian President Vladimir Putin) has invaded – that the additional emergency bill in wartime was probably the highest point, because if we had not adopted this, I think Russia would occupy Ukraine today, and they are in Moldova and Georgia and perhaps threatened the Baltic and Poland states.”

The main legislator was a leading voice on foreign policy in a republican party that has experienced a sequence of growing isolationist – something McCaul said the worrying.

“I think it is a very dangerous mentality. It did not work in 1939, and there are many parallels to 1939 today. Now, I think that the sharing of the burden is real. I think, you know, having NATO to get up – I think (President Donald Trump) is reasonable.

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“But I think there are some people in the administration who are much – America first with whom I agree, but it is not at the expense of the abdication of our responsibility for directing the world. And I think that is dangerous if it is what they think that America is first.”

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When asked if he had regrets during his stay at the Congress, McCaul said he was proud of his work on Capitol Hill.

“There was a time when, you know, there was a possibility in the Senate, but I would not exchange what I did for anything,” he said. “I feel very in peace with that, because I have the impression of going out in mind. I presided two major committees. I was effective. There is a good expression – I miss the clowns, but I will not miss the circus.”