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Cruz: Federal tax revenues increased every year following 2017 Trump tax cuts
“Tax revenue went up every single year. After we cut the taxes, the revenue from the federal government went up.”
Cruz: Verdict podcast audience size beats CNN every single week
“Every week my podcast is beating CNN.”
Cruz predicts Trump will issue around 100 executive orders on Monday
“Well, on Monday we're gonna see a flurry of executive orders. I think it'll be in the neighborhood of a hundred executive orders. I'm optimistic about them. That's the number they're talking about. It, it's going to be in that neighborhood.”
Cruz: Congress will extend the expiring 2017 Trump tax cuts
“The 2017 Trump tax cuts are expiring this year. We're going to extend them.”
Cruz: Politicians citing 'waste, fraud, and abuse' avoid real spending cuts
“Anytime someone talks about waste, fraud, and abuse, they don't really want to cut government spending.”
Cruz predicts the Senate will confirm every single Trump cabinet nominee
“I think right now every Trump cabinet nominee gets confirmed.”
Cruz predicts Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be confirmed as HHS Secretary
“I think he makes it through.”
Cruz: The 1987 amnesty law fundamentally shifted California's voting composition
“And so I think the amnesty law played a significant part, the federal law changing the voting composition of the state.”
Cruz: Over 1,000 people per day have moved to Texas since 2014
“It has now been more than a decade that we have had over a thousand people a day moving to Texas.”
Cruz: 50,000 Canadians travel to US yearly for medical care
“Every year about 50,000 Canadians come to America on what they call medical tourism, because they can't get the medical care they need in Canada”
Cruz: Biden administration issued over 90 regulations designed to raise energy costs
“Where the Biden administration's put in over 90 different regulations and executive orders all designed to drive up the cost of energy.”
Cruz: All Democrats and half of Republicans vote for major spending bills
“On any big spending bill, you unfortunately have a bipartisan coalition in favor of spending. You have essentially all the Democrats and about half the Republicans.”
Cruz: Carter giving away the Panama Canal was a spectacularly stupid decision
“Look, I think Jimmy Carter giving away the Panama Canal remains one of the most spectacularly stupid decisions a president has ever done in office.”
Cruz: Pam Bondi will win confirmation by holding every Senate Republican vote
“Pam Bondi, even though she did very well, I'd be surprised if Democrats vote for just the nature of attorney general in this politicized environment. My guess is, I think of the committee, the D's are going to vote no, but I think Pam will hold every Republica…”
Cruz: 'Results Act' would mandate FDA reciprocity with other developed nations
“The Results Act says that if any pharmaceutical, any medical device is approved in another major developed country, so approved in Canada or Japan or the EU, That the FDA has 60 days to approve it here, or it's deemed automatically approved by operation.”
Cruz: California is the largest source of net migration to Texas
“And the biggest state folks come from is California.”
Cruz: Verdict podcast reaches about one million unique listeners per week
“We've got about a million unique listeners that listen to the Verdict podcasts.”
Cruz: US labor force participation is among historical lows
“We also have among the lowest labor force participation we've ever had.”