Cruz previously called January 6 a "terrorist attack," but walked back those comments after he faced backlash from the far-right.

In a disclosure to the senate filed Friday, Sen. Ted Cruz revealed he had bought up to $50,000 worth of the digital coin last month.

"Dem Karens want to tell you how to live your life," Cruz tweeted on Friday. "And they'll fire you, cancel you, or scream at you if you don't obey."

"The fact that he's willing to make a promise at the outset, that it must be a Black woman, I gotta say that's offensive," Cruz said of Biden's plans.

Cruz joked that "tickets to Cancun are up 32%!" in a tweet about inflation as Texas braces for the impact from another winter storm.

Many Republicans have criticized Biden for vowing to nominate a Black woman, despite President Ronald Reagan's similar pledge to name a woman to SCOTUS.

A video has surfaced of Trump proclaiming himself the "45th and 47th" President of the United States to onlookers at a game of golf.

New data compiled for news site Axios shows how Trump appears to have lost his onetime dominance of conversation online.

Republican commentators and politicians took to social media to compare it to a scene in The Simpsons Movie.

The Texas Republican asked top DOJ officials if any federal agents played a role to "actively encourage violent criminal conduct on January 6?"

Despite Cruz's efforts to walk back the quote, Carlson told the senator "I do not believe that you used that accidentally. I just don't."

Cruz walked back his comments to Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Thursday, but right-wing figures and Trump allies are not buying his explanation.

"So why are you telling us it was, Ted Cruz?" Carlson said in his latest whitewashing of the insurrection, adding that Cruz is "legitimately smart."

Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, and other potential 2024 hopefuls all had a very different take on the day than Biden.

"What a pathetic, sordid spectacle to see Ted Cruz utter words like that," the Maryland Democrat told MSNBC.

Ted Cruz muses about Republicans potentially impeaching Biden in response to Trump's two impeachments.

Among other blows during the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump insulted Cruz's wife and implicated his father in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican of Texas, taught school board candidates that Critical Race Theory is "taking our schools by a storm." Now his lecture is being circulated as an e-book among conservatives.

United Airlines has one of the strictest corporate vaccine mandates, requiring most staff to get the shot or be terminated, minus exemptions.

Books by Democratic Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Elizabeth Warren, as well as GOP Sens. Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton, have scored the lawmakers big royalties or advances.

President Joe Biden must sign the spending bill before a midnight deadline on Friday to avert a temporary government shutdown.

"That makes no sense for anyone," McConnell said. Some GOP senators are threatening a government shutdown over Biden's vaccine mandates.

Ted Cruz and Marjorie Taylor Greene are among the GOP lawmakers calling to strip funding for agencies carrying out the mandate in a stopgap spending bill.

Senator Ted Cruz compared Fauci's statement that he represented science with the words of King Louis XIV of France, who once said "I am the state."

Fauci seemingly suggested that the Texas Republican should be prosecuted over his role in lending legitimacy to the mob that stormed the US Capitol.

"I have to laugh at that. I should be prosecuted? What happened on January 6, Senator?" Fauci replied, laughing.

Xi is the same spelling as the Chinese President's surname. The WHO said the Greek letter Omicron would be "easier" for the general public.

Cheney told CNN that Cruz, who ran against then-candidate Trump during the 2016 GOP presidential primaries, should have stood up in defense of his family.

For the second time this fall, Congress is split over raising the debt ceiling. The stakes couldn't be higher, but Republicans refuse to play ball.

Cruz responded to a CNN clip discussing if there was a way for Cheney to run for president, tweeting: "Yes. It's called the Democratic primary."

"We're not there yet, and if there comes a point where it's hopeless, then I think we take NASA, we take the military, we take the oil," Cruz said.

The children's character was dragged into a partisan battle over COVID vaccines at the weekend, after tweeting that he'd been vaccinated.

Right-wingers criticized Sesame Street's Big Bird for promoting the COVID-19 vaccine after it was authorized for children aged 5-11.

Two commissioners also said that former President Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz, who also worked with Cambridge Analytica, may have also violated the law.

Even vending machines could accept cryptocurrencies for food purchases under the Texas Republican's resolution.

The Texas senator made the comments while questioning Attorney General Merrick Garland at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.

Australia's Northern Territory chief minister Michael Gunner told Cruz that he loves Texas "but when it comes to COVID, I'm glad we are nothing like you."

Conservatives praised Southwest pilots for what they claimed was a vax mandate protest. The airline says the cancellations were caused by the weather.

Sen. Ted Cruz recently blamed Southwest Airlines' flight cancelations on vaccine mandates, which the airline denied.

Southwest Airlines canceled nearly 2,000 flights over the weekend due to staffing shortages and scheduling issues, not a pilot protest.

"Cancun is lovely this time of year," Sen. Cruz responded to a tweet from Republicans about President Biden going "on vacation" to his home state Delaware.

Cruz says "abolishing the police is insanity." He should take comfort in the fact that even America's liberal mayors have no intention of doing it.

A GOP senator told Insider McConnell would be "damn hard-pressed" to come up with the 10 Republican votes needed to extend the debt limit.

Hill wrote in her memoir that even though Trump lost the 2020 election, he still "usurped the Republican Party."

Reconciliation is seemingly the only way Democrats can raise the debt ceiling. The GOP is aiming to jam up the process to derail Biden's agenda.

A group of GOP senators are pushing to ensure a similar amendment to a major defense bill makes it to President Biden's desk.

Millions of Americans have had their unemployment benefits cut off as of Labor Day, after three federal pandemic-aid programs ended.

Bagram, which was once the largest US military base in the Afghanistan but has since fallen to the Taliban, is roughly 40 miles from Kabul.

Trump called the Taliban "smart" and said it had "good fighters," while Rep. Gaetz said it was more legitimate than the Biden administration.

The senator received a $320,000 advance for his book from the book's publisher, Regnery Publishing.

Cruz had shared an out-of-context clip of Clarissa Ward, accusing her of cheerleading for the Taliban while reporting in Afghanistan.

In her full-length segment, CNN's Clarissa Ward said the "real story" is of the many Afghans "petrified for their lives" under Taliban rule.

The Republican senator from Texas suggests it's tyranny to require a COVID-19 vaccine. But he abandons the argument for other infectious diseases.

"If you ran into Matt Gaetz or Ted Cruz or Jim Jordan at the Santa Monica Pier, you would say, 'These are nice guys!'" Swalwell said during a podcast.

Democratic lawmakers in Texas left the state earlier this week to deny the legislative quorum needed to move Republican-sponsored bills.

When asked about a 2024 run, GOP Sen. Ted Cruz told Newsmax: "Well, sure, I'm certainly looking at it."

A group of Republican senators led by Sen. Ted Cruz said mask requirements for public-transport passengers were outdated.

Sen. Ted Cruz said Thursday he hopes Matthew McConaughey doesn't run for Texas governor as he might pose a "formidable" challenge to Gov. Greg Abbott.

In his 2018 Senate bid, Ted Cruz loaned his campaign $260,000, which was $10,000 over the limit. But judges ruled that the limit burdens political speech.

"I think our adversaries would like to capitalize on talking points like that - you know, the Chinese, the Russians," Lloyd Austin told CNN.

"Not sure Cuomo's [sic] should be talking about controlling women's bodies...." Ted Cruz said in a tweet.

Cruz was joined by Sens. Mike Braun and Cynthia Lummis. The home states of all three senators have already passed bans on vaccine passports.

"I would note you put out on CSPAN the code on your iPhone, so you might want to change that now," Cruz told Blumenthal.

Insider traced the route of a video comparing US and Russian military recruitment ads from pro-Kremlin networks to Cruz's Twitter feed.

Brian Williams named the GOP senator "Kremlin Cruz" after noting that he hated being called "Cancun Cruz" when he fled Texas during a storm.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz based his criticism on a TikTok comparing a Russian Army commercial with a US Army commercial.

Critics slammed Cruz over his remarks, accusing him of joking about the trip that happened during the winter storms that killed more than 150 people.

Cruz's comments feed into a longstanding trope that any criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitic.

The Big Cat Public Safety Act passed the House in December but was never brought up for a vote in the Senate, Baskin said.

Cruz claims, without evidence, that automatic voter registration will result in thousands of undocumented immigrants being put on voter rolls.

Yang, a Democrat running to be New York City's mayor, said he was "standing with the people of Israel" and condemned "Hamas terrorists."

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called for Cruz to resign on multiple occasions since the deadly Capitol insurrection on January 6.

Earlier this week, one ethics expert accused Cruz of saying "the most openly corrupt thing any Senator has said."

"This time, we won't look the other way on Coca-Cola's $12 billion in back taxes owed," Cruz wrote in a threat to "woke CEOs."

The CIA launched a website and a series of advertisements in an attempt to attract a more diverse pool of applicants for jobs.

Sen. Ted Cruz later called the speech 'boring, but radical.'

"This whole thing could have just been an email," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tweeted after the speech.

"Basically, immigration is down and the birth rate is falling, primarily due to this photo," Noah said during a video, revealing an image of Cruz.

The Wyoming Republican called it "disqualifying" for senators who challenged the 2020 election results to run for president in 2024.

Ted Cruz said that President Joe Biden's comments before the Derek Chauvin trial verdict could be grounds for a mistrial.

Waters, a California Democrat, attended a Minnesota rally against police killings. She told demonstrators to remain in place and "demand justice."

This isn't Cruz's first time flouting public health guidance. Asked to wear a mask in March, Cruz told a reporter he was "welcome to step away."

Yes, the GOP wants to counter China. Yes, it wants to break up Big Tech. But only if the Democrats get mad about it.

Wall Street gave $4.8 million in both individual and PAC donations to Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California in the 2019-20 cycle, per an AFR report.

Boehner skewered Cruz in a released excerpt of his memoir, calling him a "reckless a--hole who thinks he is smarter than everyone else."

Republicans had mixed reactions to Biden's decision. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said he's "glad the troops are coming home."

John Boehner and Ted Cruz have traded barbs over the last week as Boehner takes aim at his former Republican colleagues in a forthcoming book.

Boehner criticized current GOP leaders like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, who he called a "reckless a--hole who thinks he is smarter than everyone else."

"I just never saw a guy who spent more time tearing things apart ― never building anything, never putting anything together," Boehner said of Rep. Jordan.

In an interview that will air on "CBS Sunday Morning" this weekend, Boehner, who's promoting his new memoir, described Cruz as an attention seeker.

Ted Cruz used campaign funds to run adverts urging viewers to buy his book, the Campaign Legal Center watchdog has alleged.

The former House speaker was apparently drinking wine while recording, sources told Axios, and went off on Cruz while talking about freedom.

Boehner had comparatively nicer things to say about former President Barack Obama, whom he said was targeted by GOP "kooks" and conspiracy theorists.

"You funded cages, expanded cages, and yet you're complaining about cages. You have no policy, just puff," Ocasio-Cortez told Cruz in a tweet.

"These are people who are about to engage in political theater [and] do a whole lot of complaining and finger-pointing," she said of Cruz and Cornyn.

Sen. Ted Cruz and other Republicans criticized President Biden's handling of border migration after visiting the Rio Grande on Friday.

This comes a month after Cruz faced widespread backlash for vacationing in Mexico during Texas' winter storm crisis.

Ted Cruz told the reporter: "You're welcome to step away if you like" during a press conference on Wednesday.

Cruz also ripped Democrats, alleging they play 'ridiculous theater' by proposing gun legislation like universal background checks after mass shootings.

Companies paused their support for 147 GOP lawmakers after the Capitol riots. Now, some are giving to the groups those Republicans oversee.