McCaul calls for more sanctions, "The World is on fire"

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul sent a letter to President Biden urging him to implement mandatory sanctions against U.S. adversaries under McCaul’s 21st Century Peace Through Strength Act. (Public Law (118-50) 

“I call on you to provide additional resources, including detailed staff, to the Departments of Treasury and State for the specific purpose of immediate and robust implementation of the 21st Century Peace Through Strength Act to counter Iran, Russia, and China. The world is on fire; we cannot lose another day to hesitation, appeasement, and weakness.”

Signed into law as part of the national security supplemental in April of 2024.   In September the White House delegated enforcement of McCaul's language along with the rest of the bill to the resepective departments September 13th. 

184-page 21st Century Peace through Strength Act, H.R. 8038, served as the House Republican national security supplemental package. The bill included myriad provisions pulled from multiple pieces of legislation sponsored and supported by House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans.

The Act called for mandatory sanctions against Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Al-Asqa Martyr’s Brigade, the Lion’s Den, and other Palestinian terrorist groups and their supporters, and on individuals trafficking illicit captagon, such as war criminal Bashar al-Assad.

Sanctions on ports and refineries that receive and process Iranian oil are also required, which also would further restrict the export or re-export of U.S.-origin goods and technology to Iran, including those used to manufacture missiles and drones attacking U.S. forces across the Middle East and by Russian President Vladimir Putin against Ukraine, the summary says.

Among numerous other provisions are mandatory sanctions on anyone involved in activity covered under the United Nations’ missile embargo on Iran that lapsed in October 2023, and on anyone involved in the supply, sale, or transfer of, or support for, Iran’s missiles and drones.

The full text of the letter can be here