The Hill: Cruz: 'Biggest mistake' in Ebola response is letting flights continue
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Sunday slammed President Obama for not instituting a travel ban on flights to and from West Africa.
During an interview on CNN’s "State of Union" show, Cruz said the “biggest mistake that continues to be made is that we continue to allow open commercial air flights.”
“We need to take a common-sense stand of suspending commercial air travel out of these countries,” Cruz said. “And for whatever reason, the Obama White House doesn’t want to.”
When asked what mistakes were made in Dallas when handling the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., Thomas Eric Duncan, Cruz said the first mistake was letting Duncan come to the U.S.
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