McCarthy Voices ‘Real Concern’ Over Biden’s Foreign Policies
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) criticized President Joe Biden’s foreign policies in the wake of the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 people, urging for a firm stand for freedom, not fear.
“If you want to know about 21 years ago today, you’ve got to pay attention to what is happening now,” McCarthy told Fox New’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” underscoring approaches under Biden that endangered the country, including the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Russia-Ukraine war, and reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
“Now I have a real concern with the aggression of China, Russia now into Ukraine. Even on our southern borders, cartels [are] becoming stronger by the day,” McCarthy said during the show on Sept. 11. “But now we have an administration that is negotiating with the regime in Iran. When we had such progress with the Abraham Accords, to reverse that is wrong. And that is a real concern of what will happen in the future.”
Biden’s proposal to renew the nuclear deal has raised grave concerns among many Arabs, fearing that the money under the agreement would allow Iran’s mullahs to promote more terrorism and violence and expand Tehran’s terrorist proxies in the Middle East.
The Obama-era nuclear deal—under which Tehran agreed to dismantle much of its nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars worth of sanctions relief—was unilaterally abandoned by former President Donald Trump in 2018, given that “America will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail.”
U.S. President Donald Trump signs a document reinstating sanctions against Iran after announcing the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear deal in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House in Washington on May 8, 2018. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
“Foreign policy matters,” McCarthy said during the show, as he condemned Biden’s
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