Another Republican lawmaker has announced they will not seek reelection. Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas has announced he will not seek reelection in 2026. McCaul, who has been in office for over twenty years, did note that he will finish his current term. Fox News broke the story on Rep. McCaul’s decision not to seek reelection: Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas will not run for re-election in 2026. The long-serving lawmaker noted during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” that he will serve the rest of his current term, but is seeking a “new challenge.” McCaul has previously chaired the House Committee on Homeland Security and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. “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,” the congressman said in social media posts. “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. I am ready for a new challenge in 2027 and look forward to continuing to serve my country in the national security and foreign policy realm,” he noted. Watch McCaul make his announcement here: BREAKING: Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul announced on @ThisWeekABC that he will not seek reelection in 2026. “It’s been an honor to serve for over two decades in the Congress. I’m looking now for a new challenge.” Read more: https://t.co/pSP1FGfbWs pic.twitter.com/w8bNtbFn6K — ABC News (@ABC) September 14, 2025 NBC News reported last year that McCaul was briefly detained at an airport after appearing drunk: Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, was briefly detained after an interaction with police at Dulles International Airport near Washington, a spokesperson told NBC News. The spokesperson said that McCaul was not arrested and was not threatening to anyone and that police approached him because he appeared to be drunk and needed help. McCaul was then able to phone a family member to pick him up from the airport to bring him back to Washington. A spokesperson for Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority police said McCaul was charged with being drunk in public around 9 p.m. Nov. 4 and released to a driver who picked him up. The spokesperson said McCaul, who is a nervous flyer, took the drug Ambien to help him sleep on a flight back home to Texas and inadvertently missed his flight. While he was working to rebook his flight, the Ambien, which he had mixed with several alcoholic drinks, made him disoriented, and he locked himself out of his phone, the spokesperson said. That led to his encounter with police, who initially thought he was just drunk and detained him, the spokesperson said. After McCaul explained the situation, police helped him to use one of their phones to call a family member who picked him up at the airport. Why is the GOP Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee @RepMcCaul getting so blitzed drunk in public that he had to be detained at a DC airport?! Rep Michael McCaul should step down from his Chairmanship immediately He’s not only a Ukraine warmonger, but now he’s a… pic.twitter.com/qRJrgrm7JE — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) November 14, 2024