Slams Democrat lawmakers and the Biden administration for choosing politics over science and continually forcing mandates on the American people U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this week delivered remarks on the Senate floor slamming Democrat leadership in the House of Representatives for threatening to arrest those not wearing masks and the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate proposal for all federal employees. Read excerpts of his remarks below. “We’re surrounded by men and women who’ve chosen to come and work for the public […]
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Sen. Cruz Issues Statement on Emergency Supplemental Spending Bill
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today released the following statement after voting for the emergency supplemental spending bill: “After January 6, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer made the cynical decision to try to exploit that violent event for political advantage. What followed was months of political theater with the Capitol surrounded by a chain-link fence and razor wire, thousands of National Guardsmen visibly stationed (most without bullets), and Capitol Police required to treat our Nation’s Capitol […]
Sen. Cruz: South Texas COVID Rates are Rising Because of the Biden-Harris Border Crisis
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today joined his Republican colleagues in calling on the Biden-Harris administration to address the humanitarian, national security, and most recently, public health crisis on our southern border. As rates of COVID-19 rise in Texas communities, Sen. Cruz urged the Biden administration to preserve Title 42 prompt expulsions of illegal immigrants to protect the health and safety of Americans and called for passage of his SHIELD Act to codify […]
Sen. Cruz Pulls Support for Bill After Senate Foreign Relations Committee Adds Language Pushing Palestinian Statehood and New Funding Amid Ongoing Palestinian Terrorism
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement after removing himself as co-sponsor from the Israel Relations Normalization Act of 2021 after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee rewrote the bill to declare it is U.S. policy to push for a Palestinian state and implement authorizations to pour money into Palestinian areas: “Too many American lawmakers have forgotten that Israel is one of our closest allies and a […]
Sen. Cruz Introduces Bill to Block Federal Funding For Critical Race Theory Training
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today introduced the END CRT Act, which would prohibit federal funding for any agency or recipient of federal funding to teach Critical Race Theory (CRT) in workplace training. U.S. Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah) introduced the House companion bill in May of 2021. Upon introduction of this bill, Sen. Cruz said: “The federal government has no right to force a political agenda onto Americans, especially one that aims to tear down our […]
Sen. Cruz on Nord Stream 2: ‘A Generational Geopolitical Mistake That Will Strengthen Russia at the Expense of All of the West’
Joins Fox Business’ ‘Kudlow’ to slam the politicization of the IRS and the Biden administration’s refusal to sanction the Nord Stream 2 pipeline U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today joined Fox Business’ ‘Kudlow’ to discuss his push for the Biden administration to sanction Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline and the recent ProPublica report on leaked IRS documents. Highlights of Sen. Cruz’s interview are below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: Just a Few Months Into the Biden Administration and They’re Already Politicizing the […]
Sen. Cruz Issues Statement on the US Treasury Department Sanctioning Nicaraguan Officials
‘The United States must remain committed to holding the regime accountable’ U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a Senate Foreign Relations Committee member, released the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioning of four Nicaraguan officials. Today’s sanctions are against individuals involved in human rights abuses and ongoing repression of civil society under the Ortega regime: “The Biden administration did the right thing sanctioning these figures, who have […]
Sen. Cruz on Hannity: “What is it With Liberals That They Look at Putin, They Look at Xi, They Look at the Ayatollah and Say, ‘What They Need is Billions of American Dollars’’’
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) yesterday joined Fox News’ ‘Hannity’ to talk about the inflation crisis under President Biden and the administration’s foreign policy failures. Highlights of his interview are below. WATCH: Cruz on Hannity: The Biden-Harris Administration Has Been a Domestic, Economic & Fiscal Disaster On the Biden administration’s foreign policy failures, Sen. Cruz said: “If you look at Biden’s foreign policy and you break the world into two groups, our friends and our enemies. What does […]
Sen. Cruz in The Dallas Morning News: ‘Inflation Could Wreck American Wealth’
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today published an op-ed in The Dallas Morning News detailing how the Biden-Harris administration’s massive spending spree could result in an inflation crisis and destroy the wealth of hard-working Americans. In the op-ed, Sen. Cruz wrote: “Since 2012, our inflation rate has been around 2% or under. But in April, it was announced that our inflation rate had ticked up to 4.2%, and it may keep going up. This is a problem because when the […]
Sen. Cruz Issues Statement on January 6 Commission
‘With multiple investigations already underway, I do not support the politically motivated January 6 Commission led by Sen. Schumer and Speaker Pelosi’ U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement in opposition to the Senate commission investigating the January 6 terrorist attack on the Capitol: “The January 6 terrorist attack on the Capitol was a dark moment in our nation’s history, and I fully support the ongoing law enforcement investigations into anyone involved. Everyone who […]