Brazos County’s congressman chairs a task force about security during upcoming national special events

This podcast contains comments from Brazos County congressman Michael McCaul at the beginning of the first hearing on July 22, 2025 of a homeland security committee task force on security issues facing future national special events.

Congress launches a new task force to increase security for upcoming special events around the country.

The chairman of the task force that is part of the homeland security committee is Brazos County congressman Michael McCaul.During the first task force hearing on Tuesday (July 22), 

McCaul brought up next year's soccer World Cup in multiple cities, the 2026 celebration of the United States 250th birthday, and the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

McCaul said one clear lesson from past attacks, is the need for strong intelligence sharing from federal agencies to local and state law enforcement. He added that intelligence sharing will be aided by money that was part of federal legislation that was recently signed by the president.

McCaul said the task force will review lessons learned from past security failures, citing what he described as vehicular terrorism on New Year's Day in New Orleans and gunfire at last year's Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade.