Ted Cruz
American politician
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| June 2025 | Cruz added text to a budget reconciliation bill to prevent states that enact AI regulations from receiving federal broadband project funding, demonstrating his opposition to AI regulation. |
| 2025 | iHeartMedia introduced Cruz's podcast to its conservative talk radio stations through Premiere Networks, making Cruz the first serving senator to host a national radio show. |
| January 2025 | Cruz introduced the Kids Off Social Media Act (KOSMA) alongside Senators Chris Murphy, Katie Britt, and Brian Schatz, proposing a minimum age of 13 for social media use and restrictions on algorithmic content targeting for users under 17. |
| 2024 | Ted Cruz endorsed Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election. |
| November 5 2024 | Ted Cruz ran for a third Senate term and defeated Democratic nominee Colin Allred, a former NFL player and U.S. representative, with 53.1% of the votes compared to Allred's 44.5%. |
| September 2024 | Cruz tweeted a controversial image reiterating a false claim about Haitian immigrants, which drew significant backlash from Twitter users. |
| 2023 | Cruz condemned Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act, calling any law criminalizing homosexuality 'grotesque & an abomination', and called for Texas to repeal its state law criminalizing homosexuality. |
| 2023 | Ted Cruz made a cameo appearance in The Daily Wire comedy film Lady Ballers. |
| 2023 | Cruz was among the 31 Senate Republicans who voted against the final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act. |
| March 2023 | Cruz voted against repealing the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Iraq. |
| 2022 | Cruz voted against the Respect for Marriage Act. |
| 2022 | Cruz compared the vandalism and destruction of monuments and memorials in the U.S. to the 2001 destruction of the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan by the Taliban. |
| 2022 | Cruz sharply criticized the Chinese government for the detention of Houston resident Mark Swidan, who has been held for over ten years and is considered wrongfully detained by the United Nations and U.S. government. |
| 2022 | The Supreme Court ruled in FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate in favor of Cruz, allowing him to seek donor contributions to repay $555,000 he loaned to his campaigns, which included $545,000 from his 2012 campaign. |
| 2022 | Ted Cruz voted against Bernie Sanders's proposed measure for the United States Innovation and Competition Act, which aimed to fund semiconductor manufacturers and prevent outsourcing of jobs. |
| 2022 | Cruz voted against the Inflation Reduction Act. |
| October 2022 | Verdict with Ted Cruz partnered with iHeartRadio, resulting in an expansion of the podcast's content frequency to three times a week. |
| October 2022 | The Babylon Bee produced a satirical video sketch featuring Ted Cruz playing himself, where he references writing 'letters' and drops a cipher, further playing into the Zodiac Killer meme. |
| July 2022 | While speaking at a Turning Point student conference, Cruz declared his preferred pronouns as 'kiss/my/ass'. |
| July 2022 | Ted Cruz issued a press release in support of the repeal of the 1973 Texas anti-sodomy law, advocating that 'consenting adults should be able to do what they wish in their private sexual activity'. |
| July 2022 | Cruz issued a press release supporting the repeal of the 1845 Texas anti-sodomy law, arguing that 'consenting adults should be able to do what they wish in their private sexual activity'. |
| May 2022 | In the aftermath of the Robb Elementary School shooting, Cruz attributed mass shootings to societal issues and voted against the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which aimed to enhance firearm purchase background checks among other reforms. |
| 2021 | Cruz objected to the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. |
| October 2021 | Ted Cruz posted a tweet criticizing the vaccine mandates in Australia's Northern Territory, which elicited a viral response from Chief Minister Michael Gunner and garnered widespread support from Australians. |
| September 2021 | The laying of the second line of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was completed. |
| June 10 2021 | The sections of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline were officially connected. |
| June 4 2021 | Vladimir Putin announced that the pipelaying for the first line of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was fully completed. |
| May 2021 | During a Senate Rules Committee hearing, Cruz falsely claimed that the For The People Act was designed to encourage illegal voting by non-citizens. |
| May 28 2021 | Cruz voted against the creation of an independent commission to investigate the January 6 Capitol riot. |
| February 2021 | During a historic winter storm in February 2021, Ted Cruz was spotted on a plane heading to Cancún, Mexico, while millions of Texas residents were without power and water. |
| February 2021 | Following his return from Cancún, Ted Cruz volunteered in Houston to assist with recovery efforts related to the winter storm. |
| February 2021 | Upon his return from Cancún, Ted Cruz was greeted by protesters calling for his resignation outside his house. |
| January 2021 | The Fortuna pipelayer joined the Akademik Cherskiy to assist in completing the Nord Stream II pipeline. |
| January 2021 | After being recorded on video referring to the Capitol riot as a 'violent terrorist attack,' Cruz later appeared on Tucker Carlson's program to apologize for the characterization, describing it as 'frankly dumb' and 'sloppy.' |
| January 2021 | Cruz's communications director, Lauren Blair Bianchi, resigned following the events surrounding the Capitol riot and Cruz's role in it. |
| January 6 2021 | On January 6, 2021, during the debate about whether Congress should accept Arizona's electoral votes, Ted Cruz stated that 39% of Americans believed the 2020 presidential election was rigged, although he clarified that he was not arguing for setting aside the election results. This was during the storming of the United States Capitol by an insurrectionist mob after a rally near the White House. |
| 2020 | Cruz condemned a boycott of Goya Foods by Latino public figures (including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Julian Castro, and Lin-Manuel Miranda) who objected to the company's praise of Trump, arguing that the boycott was an attempt to 'silence free speech'. |
| 2020 | Ted Cruz backed a failed appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court aimed at overturning the 2020 presidential election results in Pennsylvania. The appeal was filed by U.S. Representative Mike Kelly, arguing that the Pennsylvania Constitution mandated in-person voting except under very limited circumstances. However, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania had already rejected this argument. |
| 2020 | Ted Cruz led an effort among a group of Republican senators to refuse to count Pennsylvania's Electoral College votes, based on unsubstantiated allegations of fraud. |
| December 2020 | Cruz blocked the Hong Kong People's Freedom and Choice Act, which aimed to provide refugee status for Hong Kongers. |
| December 2020 | The Russian pipelaying ship Akademik Cherskiy continued pipelaying for the Nord Stream II pipeline. |
| December 2020 | After the 340-character Zodiac cipher is cracked, Cruz retweets an article about the cipher with the caption 'uh oh'. |
| September 2020 | In September 2020, Ted Cruz was included by President Trump on a shortlist for possible appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, alongside fellow Senators Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley. Cruz ultimately declined consideration for the position. |
| September 2020 | Ted Cruz supported an immediate vote on President Trump's nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, which occurred less than two months before the presidential election. |
| August 10 2020 | Cruz was sanctioned again by the Chinese government, along with 10 other Americans, for 'behaving badly on Hong Kong-related issues'. |
| July 13 2020 | The Chinese government sanctioned Cruz and three other U.S. politicians for interfering in China's internal affairs by condemning human rights abuses in Xinjiang. |
| March 8 2020 | Ted Cruz began self-isolation after coming into contact with a person infected with COVID-19 at the Conservative Political Action Conference, avoiding contact with colleagues and constituents for 14 days. |
| January 21 2020 | Ted Cruz and Michael J. Knowles launched a podcast titled Verdict with Ted Cruz, initially focusing on the impeachment hearings of Donald Trump. |
| 2019 | Ted Cruz encouraged a boycott of Nike after the company removed the Betsy Ross flag from shoes, which had been criticized as glorifying slavery and racism. |
| December 2019 | Cruz and Senator Ron Johnson warned the owner of Allseas of potential sanctions if they did not cease work on the Nord Stream II pipeline, which was intended to transport natural gas from Russia to Germany. |
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