EXCLUSIVE: Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of Fresh York, a member of the Area International Affairs Committee, is charging that out of the country conflicts escalated underneath the Biden administration.
Secretary of Order Anthony Blinken testified sooner than the committee in December then a report at the management’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, the place he was once pressed to “take responsibility” for the customery conflicts that erupted around the globe following the disastrous match.
Talking with Fox Information Virtual on Monday, Lawler delved into the document that claimed the Biden management “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 informed Fox Information Virtual in an unique interview.

Consultant Mike Lawler, a Republican from Fresh York, throughout a information convention at the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, March 6, 2024. (Tierney L. Move)
The congressman impressive a number of appalling occasions underneath the Biden management that adopted the Afghanistan withdrawal, such because the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Oct. 7 terrorist assault in Israel, blackmails within the Indo-Pacific from China, and the “illicit” oil business 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 Fresh York Republican mentioned.
Lawler added that pace nationwide safety has gave the impression in essentially the most “precarious” place since WW2, international coverage will quickly glance other underneath the incoming Trump administration.

An indication exhibiting footage and names of the 13 provider participants killed in a terrorist assault at Abbey Gate outdoor Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Global Airport is visible 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 informed 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 mentioned 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 Photograph/Rick Scuteri)
Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., will provide as chairman of the International Affairs Committee after Congress, the place Lawler says there might be “a lot of the focus is going to be on reauthorizing the State Department operations,” equivalent to how the company methods function and the way its budget are impaired.
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“I think, obviously, with President Trump coming in, the foreign policy of the United States is going to change,” Lawler mentioned of the incoming management. “It is going to be much stronger, much more unforgiving on our adversaries. And certainly seek to bring these conflicts to an end.”