FROM THE HILL: 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.
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 an appearance on ABC News’s “This Week,” McCaul told Martha Raddatz, “It’s been an honor to serve for over two decades in Congress.”
He added, “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.”
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