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WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Roger Marshall, (R-Kan.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) today introduced the COVID-19 Vaccine Dishonorable Discharge Prevention Act to prohibit the Department of Defense (DOD) from dishonorably discharging service members for choosing not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. The House Armed Services Committee recently passed similar language led by Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) in an amendment to the FY2022 National Defense...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the following statement in response to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas visiting Del Rio, Texas as thousands of illegal immigrants flood the Del Rio International Bridge: "President Biden's open border politics and policies are endangering thousands of lives every single day. Now, his administration is trying to do damage control after over 10,000 illegal...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) returned to the border last night as over 10,000 illegal immigrants flooded into Del Rio, due to overcapacity at immigration housing facilities. Upon arrival, Sen. Cruz was briefed by Del Rio Sector Border Patrol Interim Chief Agent in Charge Robert Garcia and command staff at the Del Rio International Bridge to see President Biden's man-made crisis firsthand.After his briefing, Sen. Cruz joined Fox News' ‘Hannity' to discuss the horrific scene...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), along with Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas) and Corpus Christi Mayor Paulette M. Guajardo, today applauded the announcement by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that $10 million of federal funding would be allocated to the Packery Channel Restoration Project in Corpus Christi, Texas. Since the destruction of Hurricane Harvey in 2017, the Packery Channel's southern wall has remained damaged, and local leaders have...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) today demanded answers from the CEO of Google, Mr. Sundar Pichai, on Google's double standard in censoring pro-life Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) advertisements while continuing to allow advertisements for deadly...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today penned an op-ed for FoxNews.com on the four indefensible policy decisions President Biden and his administration made that led to the "worst foreign policy catastrophe in a generation." On Tuesday, Sen. Cruz questioned Secretary of State Antony Blinken and demanded accountability on the acute human rights crisis created by the administration's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. In his op-ed,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today took to the Senate floor to honor the life and service of Lance Corporal David Espinoza, a Texas Marine who was killed in action in the August 26 bombing at the Kabul airport. Read Sen. Cruz's full remarks below and watch them here. "I rise today to honor the life of David Lee Espinoza, who died in defense of our nation on August 26. David was a Marine who was helping with the evacuation of the Kabul airport when he was murdered by a suicide...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today questioned U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on President Biden and his administration's catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Sen. Cruz first questioned Sec. Blinken about reports that Biden-Harris officials had given lists of Americans to the Taliban. After initially issuing a flat denial, Sec. Blinken acknowledged lists had been provided but refused to specify how many Americans...

Thank you for contacting the Office of Senator Cruz. We are working diligently with the U.S. Department of State (DOS) to assist American citizens, Legal Permanent Residents, Immigrant Visa Applicants, including Special Immigrant Visa applicants and their families that are in Afghanistan to relocate. Please see the most recent guidance regarding Afghanistan here: https://www.state.gov/afghanistan-inquiries/ Consular services are no longer available in Kabul. The Department of State has no higher...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, took to the Senate floor this week to prevent an effort by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) to circumvent floor debate on one of President Biden's State Department nominees. Sen. Cruz announced weeks into the Biden administration's term that he would use his full range of Senate prerogatives to pressure the Biden administration to impose Congressionally-mandated sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In advance of Secretary of State Antony Blinken's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Committee, today penned an op-ed for RealClearPolitics on the acute security, public health, and humanitarian crisis created by President Biden's catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan. In the op-ed, Sen. Cruz wrote: "Two weeks ago, I toured housing that's being built at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. The camp will house up...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) today called on President Biden to impose sanctions on Nord Stream 2 AG, the company responsible for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, pursuant to and as mandated by the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA). Sen. Cruz has committed to using all of his leverage and prerogatives as a U.S. senator to force the administration to follow the law,...

Greetings, I want to fill you in on my final stops in the Lone Star State meeting with students, service members, and job creators before heading back to a busy work period in Washington. After wrapping up my border tour in South Texas, I headed to Abilene to meet with the local Military Affairs Committee and discuss aircraft operations at Dyess Air Force Base, ongoing and future upgrades, and the community impact of the base. Throughout my career in the Senate, I have been a champion for Dyess...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) today called on President Biden to impose sanctions on Nord Stream 2 AG, the company responsible for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, pursuant to and as mandated by the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA). Sen. Cruz has committed to using all of his leverage and prerogatives as a U.S. senator to force the administration to follow the law, including...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today released a video statement commemorating 20 years since the September 11th terrorist attacks. Read excerpts of his remarks below. "On this day, 20 years ago, America suffered the worst terrorist attack in our history. On this day, radical Islamic terrorists murdered nearly 3,000 Americans. Every one of us who was old enough to know what was happening that day remembers exactly where he or she was the moment of those attacks." [...] "This was a...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after reports that Nord Stream 2 had been physically completed: "Nord Stream 2 should never have advanced this far. Before Joe Biden was sworn in, the United States had deployed a whole of government approach, uniting Republicans and Democrats, and the previous administration successfully stopped the pipeline for over a year. President Biden reversed that...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the following statement after President Biden ordered the U.S. Labor Department to impose a COVID vaccine mandate on businesses with over 100 employees, medical providers that accept Medicare or Medicaid, and federal workers and contractors: "President Biden's latest and most far-reaching COVID mandate completely ignores science. Forcibly vaccinating people who already have immunity ignores...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the following statement after news broke that President Biden was withdrawing his nomination of David Chipman to be director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco, and Explosives (ATF): "President Biden finally withdrew his nomination of David Chipman-a partisan gun control zealot-to be director Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. The nomination of Mr. Chipman was an...

Greetings,   In the last seventh months alone, we've seen over a million people cross illegally into this country, and we are now on pace for over 2 million people for 2021. To put that into perspective, that is roughly the population of Houston, Texas crossing illegally into this country in just one year. The Biden administration has released over 7,000 illegal immigrants who tested positive for COVID. Since the population in McAllen, Texas is 141,000, roughly five percent of McAllen...