👤 Person

Ted Cruz

American politician and attorney (born 1970)

📊 Rating

15 news mentions · 👍 0 likes · 👎 0 dislikes

📌 Topics

National Security (2)
Immigration Policy (1)
Government Funding (1)
Politics (1)
Foreign Policy (1)
Terrorism Threat (1)
Political Criticism (1)
Antisemitism (1)
Political Feud (1)
Party Division (1)
Political Commentary (1)
Republican Divisions (1)

🏷️ Keywords

Ted Cruz (12) · Iran (3) · Tucker Carlson (3) · antisemitism (2) · Republican Party (2) · conservative media (2) · Donald Trump (2) · Face the Nation (2) · ICE (1) · Homeland Security (1) · funding bill (1) · airport chaos (1) · immigration enforcement (1) · legislative deadlock (1) · Joe Kent (1) · resignation (1) · war (1) · U.S. politics (1) · foreign affairs (1) · sleeper cell (1)

📖 Key Information

Rafael Edward Cruz (; born December 22, 1970) is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator from Texas since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz was the solicitor general of Texas from 2003 to 2008. Since 2025, Cruz has chaired the Senate Commerce Committee.

📰 Related News (15)

🇺🇸 Ted Cruz And Maria Cantwell Call For FCC Chairman Brendan Carr To Explain Why Nexstar-Tegna Merger Didn’t Get Full Commission Scrutiny (2026-03-31)
The leaders of the Senate committee that oversees the FCC are questioning how the agency gave approval to the Nexstar-Tegna transaction, the massive b...
🇺🇸 Cruz asks Senate to hold his salary during DHS shutdown (2026-03-24)
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) asked on Tuesday for his congressional salary to be withheld until the shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) i...
🇺🇸 Cruz proposes splitting ICE from Homeland Security funding bill to end airport chaos (2026-03-21)
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a leading Senate conservative, is proposing to colleagues the idea of splitting off Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
🇺🇸 Sen. Ted Cruz on Joe Kent's resignation over Iran war (2026-03-17)
Top U.S. counterterrorism official Joe Kent resigned Tuesday over the Iran war, saying "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation." Republican Sen. ...
🇺🇸 Cruz: Danger from sleeper cell attacks 'has never been higher' (2026-03-11)
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) warned this week that the danger posed by Iranian-linked sleeper cells operating inside the U.S. has “never been higher,” as t...
🇺🇸 Sen. Cruz calls Tucker Carlson 'most dangerous demagogue' as right seeks to uproot antisemitism (2026-03-10)
Calls on the right are growing to stop the antisemitism that has pervaded the Democratic Party from infiltrating the GOP - and that means banishing an...
🇺🇸 Ted Cruz, Tucker Carlson reignite feud over Iran war (2026-03-10)
Cruz called Carlson a “demagogue” spreading antisemitism, days after Carlson called him and others who trust Israeli intelligence “dumbos.”...
🇺🇸 Cruz: Carlson more anti-Trump than Democrats (2026-03-10)
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is blasting conservative pundit Tucker Carlson over the commentator's criticism of President Trump's foreign policy and milita...
🇺🇸 What to know after James Talarico beats Jasmine Crockett in Texas Democratic Senate primary (2026-03-04)
Texas' highly-anticipated Democratic Senate primary is over. State Rep. James Talarico is projected to beat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett for the par...
🇺🇸 There’s a push to cut capital gains taxes on home sales — how it could impact the housing market (2026-03-04)
Some lawmakers want to reduce or eliminate capital gains on home sales. Here's how that could impact housing affordability....
🇺🇸 Ted Cruz: 'No indication' that Iran was 'close to getting nuclear weapons' (2026-03-02)
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Sunday said there was “no indication” that Tehran was “close to getting nuclear weapons” after the United States struck sev...
🇺🇸 Transcript: Sen. Ted Cruz on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," March 1, 2026 (2026-03-01)
The following is the transcript of the interview with Sen. Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Mar...
🇺🇸 Sen. Ted Cruz says he told Trump "don't miss this opportunity" to strike Iran (2026-03-01)
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that he discussed the situation in Iran with President Trump "at length...
🇺🇸 Sen. Ted Cruz endorses GOP primary challenger to Rep. Dan Crenshaw in Texas (2026-02-24)
Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday endorsed against a fellow Texas Republican in Congress, backing state Rep....
🇺🇸 Cruz urges Trump administration to tone down immigration rhetoric (2026-01-27)
Sen. Ted Cruz is calling on Trump administration officials to tone down their rhetoric in the wake of a deadly shooting by a federal agent. Political ...