As the new chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul hopes to reach across the aisle to project a unified front as the country faces new threats, despite a staunchly conservative record.
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McCaul believes deeply that “politics should stop at the water’s edge,” an adage that suggests the U.S. must set aside domestic partisan disputes and present unity when dealing with foreign threats. Doing so, he said, is critical to presenting the country’s strength. “I challenge the other side of the aisle. Let’s stand together against this common enemy we have,” McCaul said from the House floor Thursday. “Our enemy is not each other. Our enemy is foreign nations like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.”
“They’ve fallen into this false dichotomy that somehow you can’t secure the border and give weapons to free a democracy fighting a tyrannical dictator who’s threatening Europe, the likes of which we haven’t seen since Hitler,” McCaul said. The quick fall of Kabul to the Taliban and the thousands of U.S. allies left behind in the country only fed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brazenness as he invaded Ukraine last year, McCaul said. And Chinese President Xi Jinping is closely watching if Congress stops supporting the Ukrainian war effort — a decision that could give Xi the chutzpah to execute his own invasion of Taiwan.
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