Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today released the following statement after Vice President Kamala Harris announced that after 92 days without a border visit, she will visit El Paso, Texas: "Right now, the Biden-Harris Administration is functioning as the last mile of a human trafficking and illegal drug network that cartels are exploiting. The Biden-Harris Administration has repeatedly made reckless policy decisions leading to the massive surge of illegal immigrants flooding our...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today delivered remarks on the Senate floor following his vote against Democrats' radical S.1 legislation, or the ‘Corrupt Politicians Act,' which failed to advance in the Senate. Read excerpts of his remarks below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: Defeating the Corrupt Politicians Act is a Victory for the American People "I rise today to celebrate a win for the country. Today, the United States rightly failed to advance the ‘Corrupt Politicians Act,'...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and James Inhofe (R-Okla.) this week sent a letter to President Biden urging him to  ask British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to intervene on behalf of Alta Fixsler, a two-year-old girl in the United Kingdom following a British High Court ruling that will allow the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) this week sent a letter to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Explosives (ATF) expressing concern over two of their newly-proposed gun rules that could threaten Americans' Second Amendment rights. The rules, 2021R-05 and 2021R-08, would require the retention of firearms transaction records forever, paving the way to a national gun registry, and clamp down on pistol braces and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement after the Biden administration announced an extension of COVID-19 restrictions for non-essential travel through U.S. land ports of entry with Canada and Mexico: "Amid a growing illegal immigration crisis on our southern border, President Biden is continuing to prevent lawful, legitimate border crossings by extending these restrictions. Our border communities like Laredo, El Paso, McAllen, and Brownsville are...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today joined Fox News' ‘Fox & Friends' to discuss the worsening crisis on our southern border and the failure of the Biden-Harris administration to address the dangerous policies that created it. Highlights of his interview are below.' WATCH: Sen. Cruz on Fox & Friends: Joe and Kamala Have Zero Intentions to Solve the Border Crisis "It is a complete and total abdication by the federal government. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are quite...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this week delivered remarks on the Senate floor commemorating the 156th anniversary of Juneteenth. Read his full remarks below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz Commemorates Juneteenth on the Senate Floor "I rise today to recognize the 156th anniversary of Juneteenth. On Saturday, we mark 156 years since June 19th, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger announced in Galveston that the Civil War was over, and that enslaved people were now free. In his announcement,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) this week led an effort to press the Justice Department and FBI for details about any investigation into the disclosure of sensitive taxpayer records to the news media. Joining his letter to the Justice Department and FBI are Judiciary Committee colleagues. In the letter, the senators wrote: "The self-reporting...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), John Boozman (R-Ark), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) this week introduced the IRS Customer Service Improvement Act that will require the IRS to prioritize federal taxpayers over representational work during tax filing season. While President Biden has requested $80 billion for the IRS to double its workforce, many current IRS employees are spending much of their time...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Todd Young (R-Ind.), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) this week introduced the Expedited Delivery of Airport Infrastructure Act to incentivize more efficient completion of airport construction projects - saving taxpayer dollars and ensuring the safe and swift completion of economy-boosting infrastructure. Read the full bill text here. The Federal Aviation Administration's Airport Improvement Program (AIP) provides funding to help strengthen our nation's...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) this week introduced the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Visa Security Act, legislation to prohibit individuals currently or previously affiliated with or employed or sponsored by Chinese military institutions from receiving student or research visas to the United States. This bill would also establish a list of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act: "Today, the Supreme Court has yet again saved Obamacare. In 2012, Chief Justice Roberts tortured the law and said the unconstitutional individual mandate was a tax. In 2015, the Court adopted a contrived reading of the law to save it from imminent demise again. And today, the Supreme Court has declined to address the merits of a significant new legal...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today delivered remarks at a press conference with his Republican Senate colleagues criticizing S.1, or ‘The Corrupt Politicians Act,' as a brazen attempt by Democrats to federalize elections. Read Sen. Cruz's opening remarks below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz Slams Democrats' Corrupt Politicians Act "The ‘Corrupt Politicians Act' is the single most dangerous piece of legislation pending in the United States Congress. It is a brazen power grab. It...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) last week introduced the Native Species Protection Act. This bill would allow states to manage species that exist entirely within their border. Upon introduction, Sen. Cruz said: "I have long said the well-meaning Endangered Species Act is in need of reform, and this bill will empower local and state officials to better manage species within their own borders responsibly without...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered opening remarks criticizing Democrats for their radical legislation that includes protections for taxpayer-funded abortions in order to defend Roe v. Wade. Excerpts of Sen. Cruz's remarks are below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: Democrats Want to ‘Strike Down Any Law That Protects Life' "Forty-eight years ago, the Supreme Court created a right to abortion that had never before existed, that had...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on President Biden's summit with Vladimir Putin: "President Biden has signaled the U.S. is back to repeating the same decades of Democrat geopolitical policy failures during his first trip abroad. Biden allowing the completion of projects like the Nord Stream 2 pipeline are a threat to European energy...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today delivered remarks on the Senate floor criticizing President Biden for refusing to open ports of entry for lawful border entry while allowing illegal immigration to reach its worst point in 20 years. Read excerpts of Sen. Cruz's remarks below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: Biden Has Repeatedly Encouraged Border Crisis "We've got a border crisis that has been raging so intensely that we're on pace to see two million illegal immigrants come through our...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and their Senate colleagues today sent a letter to Small Business Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman urging her to disburse Shuttered Venue Operator Grant funding to struggling live entertainment venues as soon as possible. The legislation that created this program, the Save Our Stages Act, was signed into law more than six months ago, and event venues are going out of business while waiting for...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced legislation with Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) to rename the street outside the Cuban Embassy in Washington D.C. "Oswaldo Payá Way," to call out the oppression of the Cuban regime and highlight the cause of dissident Oswaldo Payá. Sen. Cruz previously introduced this resolution in July 2020. Sen. Cruz has...