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WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) this week introduced legislation to reduce the more than $28 trillion of debt held by the general public and curb unjustified spending at the federal level. The Zero Based Budget Act would cut wasteful spending and reduce U.S. debt by requiring government agencies to justify their spending levels every six years with a zero-based budget and propose a reduction in expenditures by 2...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, this week delivered remarks on the Senate floor in support of law enforcement and called out Congressional Democrats and members of the Biden administration for leading the charge to defund the police as crime rates rise in major cities. Read his full remarks below. WATCH: Cruz: Dems Have Called to Defund the Police, They're Trying to Blame Republicans for Rise in Crime "I rise today to discuss facts and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today questioned the U.S. State Department's Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland on the Biden administration's capitulation to Putin on the Russian pipeline Nord Stream 2, which if completed would vastly strengthen Russia at the expense of the national security of America and our allies. Excerpts of his line of questioning are below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: Biden Administration Admits...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) this week introduced the Federal Land Freedom Act and the Fracturing Regulations are Effective in State Hands (FRESH) Act to give each state the right to develop and regulate the energy resources on the federal lands located within that state's borders. Upon introduction, Sen. Cruz said: "In just the first few months of the Biden administration, we have witnessed an inflation crisis and increased regulatory burdens hurting...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on why the Biden-Harris administration and Senate Democrats are focusing on amnesty for illegal immigrant workers as they allow the humanitarian, national security, and public health crises on our southern border to worsen. Excerpts of his line of questioning are below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: Focus Should Be On Addressing Failed...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), and seven of their committee colleagues sent a letter urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to move any broadband-related provisions through the committee process. In the letter, the senators wrote: "Over the past year, billions of dollars have been appropriated to multiple agencies to expand broadband access across the country. Although no formal accounting has been conducted to evaluate how or where that...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Thune (R-S.D.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and the entire Senate Republican caucus urged President Biden to abandon his effort to impose a capital gains tax increase on family-owned businesses, farms, and ranches. Repealing this part of the tax code would have a devastating effect on multi-generation operations, which could lead to job losses, liquidation, or outright closure. In the letter, the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, this week sent a letter to the GAVI Alliance's Chairman, José Manuel Barroso, expressing concern that U.S. taxpayer dollars would be used to purchase Sinopharm and Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines. Both Sinovac and Sinopharm are companies based in China with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In the letter, the senators wrote: "[w]e are...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) today sent a letter to the Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Shalanda Young raising concerns about the FY 22 Army Corps budget. The budget seemingly attacks the fossil fuel industry in the United States and prohibits funding port projects connected to fossil fuels. If the language is implemented, it...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement regarding reports that the United States has struck a deal to finish Putin's Nord Stream 2 Pipeline: "If the reports and details of a deal are accurate, this will be a generational geopolitical win for Putin and a catastrophe for the United States and our allies. President Biden is defying U.S. law and has utterly surrendered to Putin. Decades from now,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, today led 24 other Republican senators in filing an amicus brief for New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, a case currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. The brief argues that New York's laws making it extremely difficult to carry a firearm outside the home violates the Second Amendment's guarantee of the right to bear arms. The brief emphasizes...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this week joined Fox News' 'Sunday Morning Futures' with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the rush by Congressional Democrats and the Biden administration to appease the Chinese Communist Party while ignoring their widespread human rights violations, censorship, and propaganda. Sen. Cruz emphasized that the Democrat Party is beholden to Big Tech and giant corporations, which in turn rely on China to turn profits. Highlights of his interview are...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) released a joint statement in response to Democrats' partisan spending package. "Our nation is nearing $30 trillion in debt. There is a day of reckoning if we don't get our fiscal house in order. We appreciate our colleagues' efforts to get a bipartisan deal done. But...

Greetings, As summer begins, I want to give you an update on what's happening with the border crisis five months into the Biden-Harris Administration. President Biden has repeatedly made reckless policy decisions that have caused the crisis at our southern border-he halted construction of the border wall, he reinstated the failed catch-and-release policy, and he ended the Remain in Mexico policy, which was an international agreement President Trump negotiated with the government of Mexico where...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), today delivered remarks on the Senate floor in support of the men and women of Cuba as they fight against their tyrannical communist regime and urged President Biden to directly call out the evils of communism. Read excerpts of his floor remarks below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz Condemns Communist Cuban Regime, Expresses Support for Cuban Protestors on Senate Floor "On Sunday, shouts of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) today introduced the ‘Candidates Afforded Dignity, Equality and Training Act of 2021,' or CADET Act, mandating an end to current policies that force female students in America's military academies into either permanently withdraw from those academies or give up their children should they become pregnant. Under the CADET Act, military academies will treat pregnancies in line with the rest of the military,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, this week introduced a resolution in support of the men and women of Cuba as they lead historic protests throughout the island against six decades of repression and tyranny from the Castro and Díaz-Canel regime. The resolution highlights the dictatorship's long record of oppression against pro-democracy leaders, political opponents, and dissidents. Following this...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today introduced legislation to...

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.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) today introduced a bicameral, bipartisan resolution...