He told reporters that he planned to “go home and keep working to get the grid reopened, to get power restored, to get the water back on.” He wore a golf shirt, jeans and a face mask in the style of the Texas state flag.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises people who have traveled to get a coronavirus test three to five days after their return and to quarantine for a full week, regardless of the test results.Ĭruz checked in for his return flight Thursday afternoon in Cancun and walked briskly through the terminal pulling a roller bag to security. Capitol Police officials and the Senate sergeant-at-arms have encouraged lawmakers and their staff to be conscious of potential threats and to consider advising law enforcement about their travel at airports and other transportation hubs.Ĭruz’s office did not immediately say whether the senator would self-quarantine. Silva could not say whether such requests are typical for Cruz’s travel or whether his staff had made a similar request for his return flight. She said officers “monitored his movements” while Cruz was at the airport. Ted Cruz nor does anyone at the White House,” Psaki said, adding that President Joe Biden’s administration is focused on “working directly with leadership in Texas and surrounding states on addressing the winter storm and the crisis at hand.”Ĭruz’s office declined to answer specific questions about the family vacation, but his staff reached out to the Houston Police Department on Wednesday afternoon to say the senator would be arriving at the airport, according to department spokesperson Jodi Silva. “I don’t have any updates on the exact location of Sen. White House press secretary Jen Psaki leaned into a question about Cruz’s “whereabouts” earlier in the day. Still, Democrats across Washington were eager to talk about the controversy. His current term expires in early 2025, and the unofficial beginning of the next Republican presidential primary election is two years away. While the situation will not help Cruz’s political future, the two-term senator is not in any immediate political danger. “This has been an infuriating week for Texans,” he said. In his statement, Cruz said that his family had lost heat and power as well. In Austin, some hospitals faced a loss in water pressure and, in some cases, heat. Texas officials ordered 7 million people - one-quarter of the population of the nation’s second-largest state - to boil tap water before drinking the water, after days of record low temperatures that damaged infrastructure and froze pipes. With Colorado “getting strange,” Michigan may be the place to be as climate changes “That’s something that he has to answer to his constituents about,” Texas GOP Chair Allen West said when asked whether Cruz’s travel was appropriate while Texans are without power and water. Billboards calling for his resignation stood along Texas highways earlier in the month.Įven the state Republican Party chair declined to come to Cruz’s defense on Thursday. More recently, he emerged as a leader in former President Donald Trump’s push to overturn the results of the November election. He was already one of the most villainized Republicans in Congress, having created adversaries across the political spectrum in a political career defined by far-right policies and fights with the political establishment. The statement did little to quell a fierce political backlash that comes as Cruz eyes a second presidential run in 2024.
Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĬruz addressed his travels only hours after The Associated Press and other media outlets reported that he had traveled to Cancun on Wednesday, with hundreds of thousands of Texans still grappling with the fallout of a winter storm that crippled the state’s power grid and killed more than three dozen people, some while trying to keep warm.
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