Press Releases

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...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with 21 of their Republican colleagues today introduced the Iran Nuclear Treaty Act. This bill will give the American people a proper constitutional check by requiring that the president submit to Congress any renewed nuclear deal with Iran as a treaty. The Iran Nuclear Treaty Act would strengthen the role Congress plays by ensuring the advice and consent of the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - 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...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) this week sent letters to the Acting Treasury Inspector General and the Inspector General for Tax Administration to request a prompt investigation into how ProPublica was able to publish a "vast trove" of taxpayer information from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The information appears to be confidential and protected under federal law from...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - 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 IRS On the politicization of the IRS, Sen. Cruz said: "When it comes to the IRS, this is abuse of power,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - 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 contributed to the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) today introduced the Federal Debt Emergency Control Act to rein in Washington's out-of-control spending and provide a concrete path forward to tackle the nation's nearly $30 trillion debt. Specifically, the Federal Debt Emergency Control Act: Requires the Office of Management and Budget to declare a "Federal Debt Emergency" in any fiscal year where the federal debt held by...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation, along with Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), today introduced the bipartisan, bicameral American Space Commerce Act. At a time when the U.S. has steadily decreased its dependence on foreign rockets and launch infrastructure, the American Space Commerce Act would...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - 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 inflation...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) today sent a letter to Attorney General (AG) Merrick Garland requesting information on the limited prosecutions and minimal penalties given to rioters arrested during the spring and summer of 2020. Cities such as Portland, Oregon were ravaged by social justice protesters and had destruction costing the cities upwards of $1 billion. In...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) this week visited Israel in the aftermath of the recent violent escalation by Iran-controlled terrorist groups including Hamas to see and hear directly what the Israelis need to defend themselves and to show the international community that the United States stands unequivocally with Israel. Sen. Cruz condemned the attacks, and in the early days of the conflict announced his intention to visit Israel in order to assess the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), and John Cornyn (R-Texas) recently introduced the Hazard Eligibility and Local Projects Act (HELP Act), legislation to help communities better prepare for future natural disasters. Upon introduction, Sen. Cruz said: "Over the past few years, Texans have experienced the devastating impact of natural disasters and hurricanes, as well as the complicated, lengthy rebuilding...