Republican Rep. Michael McCaul (TX-10), Chairman Emeritus of both the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the House Committee on Homeland Security, appeared on the March 15 Fox News Sunday program. 

Host Shannon Bream questioned McCaul extensively about Operation Epic Fury, but his most chilling response surrounded the battle in the Senate to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Democrat shutdown has saved DHS from being totally funded, compromising our home response and security, particularly in an more and more heightened home risk setting. 

McCaul told Bream, “If they continue this, Shannon, they will have blood on their hands.”

He started,

I keep in mind the Boston bombing when I turned Chairman and I investigated that. We noticed this bombing state of affairs in New York, very reminiscent, it might have been a greater assault than the Boston bombing. And since that time, Austin, TX in my hometown, to Virginia, a veteran being shot down and killed — not abroad — but in a classroom, and then the synagogue, the Jewish targets. And you are going to see more.

This could also be slowing dawning on the Democrats, as my colleague Rusty Weiss reported.

Democrats’ repeated rejection of bipartisan payments to reopen the shuttered company amid heightened threats from Iran-linked extremism shifted dramatically on Friday morning, when Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) publicly declared the need to fund DHS.

Slotkin is immediately pushing to maintain the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) debate individually from the division’s funding.

“Certainly, we need to fund the Department of Homeland Security, and we need, in my view, to cut away all the conversation on ICE, which is its own conversation, from all the core missions of the Department of Homeland Security.”

But as of today, Democrats are still more dedicated to proudly owning the Trump administration and getting their “ICE reforms,” than they’re about stopping another terror assault on U.S. soil that will take more lives. TSA officers calling out sick, leaving long traces and wait occasions at the nation’s airports; not to point out TSA and DHS brokers being compelled to drive Uber and DoorDash or promote their blood plasma to make ends meet. None of this has moved the needle for the Democrats, so, blood and carnage it’s.

McCaul continued,

The concept of shutting down the Department of Homeland Security at such a high terror risk degree is unconscionable. I feel it is political malpractice, it’s prison, and they are going to have, if they continue this, Shannon, they are going to have blood on their palms.

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In phrases of Operation Epic Fury, Bream read off legacy and right-leaning media headlines which exemplified pearl clutching, handwringing, and “Are We There Yet?” tantrums. McCaul appropriately identified that the political and pundit courses’ impatience is uncalled for. 

“The military objective, has, within weeks — everybody is so impatient right now — but within weeks, I think we can have this accomplished,” he said.

When Bream requested about people’s issues that the Iran battle will continue to adversely have an effect on fuel costs and economic system, McCaul said that while we’re experiencing some short-term pain, the long-term outcomes of the navy goal will likely be properly price it; not just for us, but for future generations. 

I feel when the navy goal is finished, you may see the price of fuel go manner down.  Again, controlling Khang Island, controlling Venezuela and the oil/vitality exports there. Long time period, we’re going to have more control over vitality in this world than we did before the invasion of Iran. So, you’ve to look at it that manner. For a couple of weeks? Sure. But long time period, it is going to put us far better off not just for my youngsters, but for future generations. They’re going to look back at this an historic second that freed up the Middle East and put it on a path of peace and normalization.

There has also been a lot propaganda afoot, fostered by legacy media and the influencer varieties sharing the unvetted, AI-generated deep fakes of American and Israeli destruction and defeat. Bream questioned whether or not the regime had actually been overthrown. McCaul allied those issues, but assured that any management change would need to come from outdoors the United States.  

The president said, wait until the bombing has stopped to exit on the road. I feel that’s the key, once the navy goal is accomplished, then the people of Iran can rise up. They need management, they need weapons, they need communications. I do know Mossad and Israel, they know where the IRG targets are. We have decapitated the Ayatollah, his government cupboard, but there are many more to do. When you get into that part, it does get more difficult. And I do suppose it might not be the position of the United States fully — it in all probability should not be. I feel Israel has a position to play in that one. But at the end of the day, free and honest elections in Iran goes to be a far better Middle East. And that’s the tough half of this, but I do suppose it is achievable.

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In phrases of when the navy strikes would end, McCaul confidently declared, “This whole thing started in 1979, it began with weak leadership by President Carter, and it’s going to end by strong leadership by President Trump. The military objective here is being accomplished. In fact, they’re ahead of schedule.”

Think about this: a world without Iran, without this regime of terror. A free Iran, where normalization under the Abraham Accords can now happen. Where you’ve the Gulf States now aligned against Iran. You have a free Venezuela, possibly a free Cuba, which was unheard of a yr in the past. The guts and the braveness of this president to take this on for future generations even though short-term pain for long-term gain, is sort of extraordinary.

The full section with Rep. McCaul is below.

WATCH:

WATCH: @RepMcCaul says if Democrats continue to maintain out for I.C.E. reforms to fund DHS “they will have blood on their hands.” pic.twitter.com/UefaIVJSzw

— Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) March 15, 2026

Editor’s Note: For many years, former presidents have been all speak and no motion. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the risk from Iran once and for all.

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