Chairman Pfluger Condemns Bondi Beach Terror Attack, Slams Obamacare Failures on Will Cain Country

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger (TX-11) joined Will Cain Country on Fox Nation to condemn the horrific terrorist attack targeting Jewish Australians at Bondi Beach and discuss the urgent need to confront radical Islamic jihadism head-on.

The Chairman warned that weakness from the Biden administration emboldened terrorist sympathizers both at home and abroad. This weekend’s attack wasn't a random act of violence—it was a deliberate attack on the Jewish people, part of a disturbing pattern of rising antisemitic terror that demands moral clarity and requires American strength to defeat.

Chairman Pfluger also called out Democrats' broken promises on health care. Obamacare has failed American families with skyrocketing premiums, rigid insurance markets, and fewer choices. Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) and Chairman Pfluger’s More Affordable Care Act puts health care decisions and dollars back where they belong—in the hands of the American people, not Washington bureaucrats.

Watch the full interview here.

Read highlights from Chairman Pfluger below:

Chairman Pfluger on Jewish Australians Attacked in Bondi Beach:
“It's tragic. It's worthy of all the emotion. It's horrible. Any antisemitism that we see, whether it's in our country, Australia, through Europe or anywhere, is horrible, and we should all condemn it. We should all reject it. And it's events like these that teach us exactly that. And you're right. Australia has probably the tightest gun laws of any developed nation in the world. And yet here we are again, in a horrible, sorrowful event, a tragic event. What strikes me, Will, is that I actually flew with Australian pilots. They had exchange pilots, and I flew combat missions with Australian pilots in the Middle East against ISIS. And the reason that we did that was because we knew how horrible these terrorist groups are, in particular ISIS, and they're different from a lot of the other groups, but radical jihadist Islamic groups, and all they want to do is destroy the West, namely the United States of America, and destroy Israel. And they will go to any length possible, which is why we fought them over there, because we don't want them on our own turf. How did these guys get radicalized inside Australia? You see that this is a threat everywhere?”

Chairman Pfluger on the Failures of Obamacare:
“I mean, I don't know how far and how deep you want to go into this, this topic, but yes, I am very much looking at this as the Chairman of the Republican Study Committee. We have good answers. We have legislation that will cut fraud, waste and abuse, that will add to the transparency, add to competitiveness, and at the end of the day, it'll bring down the cost. I mean, nobody wants money needlessly spent. The problem is that the Democrats are just not willing to do that, so [Republicans] are having to do that hard work. Also, that's where Democrats win on this emotional side, your subsidies are going to expire, your premiums are going up. Well, guess what? They built Obamacare. Not a single Republican voted on it, and Obamacare has led to increased premiums, increased cost in everything, and decreased care. So it's really their mess.”

Chairman Pfluger on Slashing Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: 
“We did that in the One Big Beautiful Bill. We said no more Medicaid for illegal aliens which will save us hundreds of billions of dollars. Why is our military receiving lesser benefits, social benefits, than an illegal alien? I mean, that's a tragedy. Whether it's fraud, waste and abuse or the benefits have to be brought back into check. And I got to give President Trump a lot of credit for it.”

Chairman Pfluger on Mass Migration:
“We had a hearing in Homeland Security, a committee that I serve on, and the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, testified. I asked him that exact question, and his answer was 18,000 I mean, this is a staggering number. Not 18,000 people who got in the country, 18,000 people who matched the terror watch list. So yes, I am extremely worried about it. Our security is good. But when you don't know where 18,000 people are, or what they're up to, or what their ties are, or what they could do next, then it's obviously a problem. And yeah, unfortunately, you know the French, I don't know the intelligence that they're seeing to cancel those celebrations, but how sad is that you know, whether it's in Germany or. Whether it's in France or anywhere in Europe, because they did have mass migration and from the period of time, from about 2012 to 2020 they let in millions and millions of people who probably were not vetted. They don't know who they are and what their purposes are, but certainly some of those have that radical jihadist mentality.”