EXCLUSIVE: Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York, a member of the Home Overseas Affairs Committee, is charging that abroad conflicts escalated underneath the Biden administration.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken testified earlier than the committee in December after a report on the administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, the place he was pressed to “take responsibility” for the widespread conflicts that erupted throughout the globe following the lethal occasion.
Talking with Fox Information Digital on Monday, Lawler delved into the report that claimed the Biden administration “has left the world in a worse off place than it inherited it” — starting with the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“The report on the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan is his legacy and that of the Biden administration, because in my estimation, it’s set about a series of events around the globe that have left us in the most precarious place since World War Two, starting with that disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan that resulted in the death of 13 U.S. service members,” Lawler advised Fox Information Digital in an unique interview.
Consultant Mike Lawler, a Republican from New York, throughout a information convention on the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, March 6, 2024. (Tierney L. Cross)
The congressman detailed a number of tragic occasions underneath the Biden administration that adopted the Afghanistan withdrawal, such because the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Oct. 7 terrorist assault in Israel, threats within the Indo-Pacific from China, and the “illicit” oil commerce between China and Iran that Lawler says is “funding terrorism.”
“This administration has left the world in a worse off place than it inherited it. And that, in my view, is the legacy of the Biden-Harris administration and that of Secretary Blinken,” the New York Republican stated.
Lawler added that whereas nationwide safety has appeared in essentially the most “precarious” place since WW2, international coverage will quickly look completely different underneath the incoming Trump administration.
An indication displaying pictures and names of the 13 service members killed in a terrorist assault at Abbey Gate exterior Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Worldwide Airport is seen throughout a information convention on the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 9, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura)
“I think President Trump obviously had four years in which there was greater peace and prosperity around the globe. And the difference between Biden and Trump is that Biden is unable to stop conflicts. Trump is willing to act,” Lawler advised Fox. “When you are strong, when your adversaries acknowledge and understand that you are willing to act and strike. They think twice about it.”
Lawler additionally stated that he thinks “President Trump will be a very strong leader when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to bringing these conflicts to an end.”
President-elect Donald Trump speaks at AmericaFest, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Picture/Rick Scuteri)
Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., will function chairman of the Overseas Affairs Committee subsequent Congress, the place Lawler says there shall be “a lot of the focus is going to be on reauthorizing the State Department operations,” comparable to how the company applications function and the way its funds are used.
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“I think, obviously, with President Trump coming in, the foreign policy of the United States is going to change,” Lawler stated of the incoming administration. “It is going to be much stronger, much more unforgiving on our adversaries. And certainly seek to bring these conflicts to an end.”
