Ted Cruz: Texas Economy at Risk: Your Tariff Support Threatens $300B Trade

Your 2025 voting record shows you prioritizing partisan politics over Texas families facing real economic hardship. While our communities struggle with rising costs and lost services, you’ve supported policies that make their lives harder. In July 2025, you voted to cut $1.1 billion from public media (Senate vote 51-48), calling NPR and PBS “left-wing propaganda.” You eliminated funding for emergency broadcasts that save lives during natural disasters like the recent Texas floods. Rural Texas stations depend on this funding for local news, weather alerts, and educational programming. Your vote silences community voices when local and trusted journalism is already disappearing. You’ve enabled tariffs that are taxing Texas families and businesses out of their communities. Even you admitted Trump’s tariffs are “a tax on consumers” and could cause a recession that creates a 2026 “bloodbath” for Republicans. The Dow dropped 2,200 points in two days, wiping out $6 trillion. Texas businesses dependent on trade with Mexico, our largest trading partner, face massive disruption. Laredo’s port handles $300 billion annually, supporting thousands of jobs you’re putting at risk. You continue blocking healthcare for 1.4 million uninsured Texans. Despite Texas having the nation’s highest uninsured rate, you still oppose Medicaid expansion for working families earning under $20,000 annually. PolitiFact rated your healthcare claims “False” twice for spreading misinformation. Your continued support for ACA repeal would eliminate pre-existing condition protections for millions more Stop cutting emergency services that protect Texans. Stop supporting policies that raise costs for working families. Support Medicaid expansion that would provide healthcare to 1.4 million Texans. Put Texas families before partisan politics. Texans deserve a senator who fights for them, not against them.