Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) will not run for reelection in 2026, he told ABC News on Sunday.
McCaul, 63, has represented Texas’s 10th Congressional District, which spans from the Houston suburbs to Austin, since 2005. He also chaired the House Homeland Security and House Foreign Affairs committees from January 2013 to January 2019 and from January 2023 to January of this year, respectively.
“It’s been an honor to serve for over two decades in the Congress,” McCaul told Martha Raddatz on ABC News’s “This Week.”
“I’m looking now for a new challenge. I’m going to serve the remainder of my term. But I’m looking for a new challenge in the same space that would be national security, foreign policy, but just in a different realm.”
McCaul was elected to the House for the first time in 2004. He went on to be reelected to his seat 10 times, with his narrowest victory occurring in 2018, when he garnered 51.1 percent of the vote to Democratic candidate Mike Siegel’s 46.8 percent.
During his interview with ABC, McCaul reflected on global affairs during his time in Congress. He referenced the rise of ISIS, the United States’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, conflicts in the Middle East and “the threat from Chairman Xi [Jinping] and China in the Indo-Pacific.”
McCaul did not specify what his next steps would be after his term ends.
“It has been the honor of a lifetime to represent the people of central Texas and to chair the prestigious Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs Committees,” McCaul said in a post on social media. “My father’s service in World War II inspired me to pursue a life of public service, with a focus on defending our great nation against global threats, and I have been proud to carry out that mission in Congress for more than two decades.”
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