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HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement as reports confirm the Taliban swept into the capital of Afghanistan: "It is now clear there has been a disastrous breakdown across the political, military, and intelligence leadership of the Biden-Harris administration, culminating in the catastrophe for American national security we are now witnessing. This debacle should never have happened-and, indeed, we were...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement on conditions in Afghanistan: "I have long called for a deliberative, planned, vetted, and secure withdrawal from Afghanistan while maintaining maximum leverage. Wars should have ends. That is the opposite of what President Biden has pursued. "The Trump administration spent years negotiating an orderly withdrawal on a fixed timetable with extensive support from...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), along with the other Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today sent a letter to Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), urging him to hold a hearing on the civil rights of senior citizens in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New Jersey nursing homes following their death rates due to COVID-19 and the decision by these states to force nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients. Co-signers of Sen. Cruz's letter to Chairman Durbin...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), along with Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) and a bicameral group of Senators and Congressmen, sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra demanding answers on why the Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped a lawsuit against the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC), which has received federal funds from HHS since 1998, for forcing...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) today praised Senate passage of their resolution to designate August 2021 as National Catfish Month. The resolution recognizes the importance of catfish farmers and workers, and commends the contributions of the farm-raised...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, took to the Senate floor early this morning to propose a bill to immediately impose sanctions on The Nord Stream 2 pipeline -- a project that if completed would threaten the national security of the United States and our allies -- in response to the Biden administration's refusal to impose existing Congressionally-mandated sanctions. The bill was blocked. Sen. Cruz then renewed his objections to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement after voting against the $3.5 trillion budget resolution: "By passing the Bernie Budget tonight, Democrats fully embraced the radical left as they ram through trillions in crushing taxes and wasteful spending. Biden Inflation is burying middle-class Americans, and is especially painful for seniors on a fixed income. We will look back on this as one of the biggest mistakes in this administration." ###

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement after voicing support for his amendment to codify Title 42 expulsions for illegal immigrants: "As elected officials of this body, we have a duty to protect the American people during these unprecedented times. Today, I strongly urge my colleagues to support my amendment ensuring that the Department of Homeland Security expels illegal immigrants under Title 42 to protect...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), and 44 of their Senate Republican colleagues this week sent a letter promising they will not vote to increase the debt ceiling, "whether that increase comes through a stand-alone bill, a continuing resolution, or any other vehicle." Such a debt ceiling increase would be one of the dire consequences of Democrats' proposed $5.5 trillion reckless spending spree contained in the budget resolution now before the Senate. In the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement after voting against Democrats' wasteful infrastructure bill: "Too many Republicans just enabled Democrats' efforts to claim bipartisanship, spend over a trillion dollars, and then ram through their $3.5 trillion liberal wish list of crushing taxes and radical spending. The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that passed today contained only about $100 billion for roads and bridges. As I've said before, if the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) today introduced the No Mask Mandates Act and No Vaccine Mandates Act. The No Mask Mandates Act ends the Biden administration's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) mask mandate for all Americans-regardless of vaccination status. The No Vaccine Mandates Act would require people administering a COVID-19 vaccine to first obtain the patient's informed consent or, if the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today delivered remarks on the Senate floor urging his colleagues to support his amendment to the infrastructure package that would remove harmful regulations on the emerging cryptocurrency industry. WATCH: Sen. Cruz on the Senate Floor: Washington Bureaucrats are Trying to Kill CryptoUpon introducing his amendment, Sen. Cruz said:"I want to thank the good efforts of the senators who have led the work in finding a compromise in this regard. In...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) today applauded Senate passage of their legislation to dramatically increase U.S. diplomatic engagement in response to the government of Daniel Ortega's continued use of repressive tactics to intimidate, inhibit or arrest every aspiring opposition candidate ahead of the scheduled...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today took to the Senate floor to slam the bait and switch of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package with a $3.5 trillion Democrat wish list. Read excerpts of his remarks below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: Liberal Spending Wish List Spends Too Much Money and is Not Paid For "I rise today to discuss the mammoth $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill before the Senate. On Sunday night, we finally got to see the 2,700 page infrastructure bill that we will be...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today warned his colleagues on the committee about President Biden's nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), David Chipman, as not only a partisan activist with an extreme anti-gun agenda but also a nominee who has a reported history of racist comments while in his previous office. Sen. Cruz also slammed Democrats' overwhelming support for President Biden's nominee...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this week joined Fox News' ‘Hannity' and CNBC's ‘Squawk Box' to talk about Democrats' bait and switch of the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure package with a $3.5 trillion Democrat wish list, along with the Biden-Harris administration's worsening border crisis and COVID mandates. Read highlights of his interviews below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz Discusses Infrastructure Bait and Switch on Squawk Box On the $1.2 trillion infrastructure...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today joined Fox News' 'America Reports' to discuss the Biden-Harris administration's border crisis spreading COVID-19 in South Texas and the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package. Read highlights of his interview below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: The Biden Border Crisis is Unacceptable On President Biden's hypocrisy over COVID mandates while releasing COVID-positive illegal immigrants in Texas, Sen. Cruz said: "Joe Biden and the Democrats hate red states...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) today released the following statement regarding the insufficient pay-fors in the 2,700 page, $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill: "We can't spend money we don't have. Period. Just look at what is happening with inflation. We were promised this infrastructure bill was fully paid for, and now we see that it's not....

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today questioned Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman on the Biden administration's rush to dismantle pressure against the Iranian regime and the subsequent escalation by the regime against the U.S. and our allies. Read excerpts of his questioning below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: ‘The Biden Admin Has Consistently Demonstrated Weakness and Appeasement Towards Iran' In his line of questioning, Sen....