Press Release from U.S. Senator Ted Cruz
03-01-23
Families across Texas and the country have been devastated by the scourge of deadly fentanyl. As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, I held a hearing this week to discuss how the Biden administration’s radical, open-border policies weakened the U.S. Coast Guard’s ability to stop deadly drugs from crossing U.S. maritime borders and allow Middle East runners to help fund Iranian terrorism. Mrs. Jena Ehlinger, a Texas mother, testified before the committee about the deadly consequences this crisis had on her own family, with the devastating loss of her son, Jake. As Chairman, I will support our Coast Guard in its mission to secure our waters and stop drug dealers from sending their poison into our communities. You have my word that I will not stop fighting until we end this crisis.
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“In contrast to Democrat ambivalence about the border crisis, President Trump and congressional Republicans are making real gains in border security through the Coast Guard. In the last month, the Coast Guard interdicted a historic amount of illegal drugs. Last week, it offloaded 37 thousand pounds of seized cocaine, worth $279 million dollars. That’s going to make a real difference in keeping communities safe from criminals and addiction.
“But protecting Americans from deadly illicit narcotics extends beyond our borders. We also need to reverse the Biden administration’s dangerous policies in the Middle East, where maritime drug-running bankrolls Iran’s malign activities. Coast Guard cutters recently caught advanced weapons originating in Iran and bound for the Houthis in Yemen, as well as hundreds of kilograms of methamphetamines, heroin, and other illicit drugs from a dhow in the Arabian Sea.”
Republicans have a clear mandate from the voters to clean up the mess Joe Biden and the Democrats inflicted on our country. We cannot fail them. The House and Senate need to secure the border, lower energy prices, deliver tax cuts, and bring back economic growth. We have already gotten to work, and with President Trump back in the Oval Office and Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate, we will ensure that America is prosperous and secure, once again.
“The President has begun enforcing the law. We’ve seen the numbers plummet. They’re 90% down in the first month. That’s what happens when you have a president who enforces the law. … We also have a mandate to unleash American energy, to unleash American oil and gas production, [and] to lower energy prices, which will lower inflation across the board. We have a mandate to bring economic growth back, which means these Trump tax cuts that produced enormous prosperity and economic growth. … We’ll get it done because failure is not an option. We cannot miss this opportunity.”
Despite a resounding mandate for change from the American people, Democrats in the media are doubling down on their failed policies and woke ideologies. Amazingly enough, they didn’t learn anything from this election. Instead of recalibrating and addressing what went wrong, they are hell bent on driving the same policies that put them out of power in the first place. It’s an entirely tone-deaf approach when our country is in such desperate need of policy reform.
“[The Democrats] are the party of waste, fraud, and abuse. … They’re defending sex change surgeries in Guatemala for $20 million, and they are defending $58 million in FEMA funds meant for disaster recovery, used to house illegal aliens. And they’re defending open borders. They’re attacking Israel, and they’re defending boys in girls’ sports. … The waste, fraud, and abuse that most needs to be cut is the Democrats. That’s who they are.”
Rest assured, I am working tirelessly to turn our country around. God Bless!
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