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Cruz told Democrats “it is clear” payments are going to illegal immigrants and criticized Sen. Dick Durbin
Speaking on the Senate floor Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed Democrats for forcing a $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill through Congress while rejecting his amendment to stop funds from going to illegal immigrants. He told Democrats “it is clear” payments are going to illegal immigrants and criticized Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) for misinforming the Senate about whether “illegal aliens would receive… stimulus checks.
“It is clear and indisputable that a significant number of illegal immigrants will receive checks and are receiving checks right now. All 100 members of this body were misinformed by the Democratic senator that no illegal aliens would receive … stimulus checks,” Cruz said, referring to Durbin. “So I want to give my colleagues a chance to adopt the amendment now with the correct information, with the true information, with the factual information.”
“I would note as well, in these deeply partisan times, it’s easy for Republicans to throw insults at Democrats. Its easy for Democrats to throw insults at Republicans. Far too much of that occurs,” Cruz continued. “The senator from Illinois, who is a friend who I’ve served with for nine years, the talented senator, I am not here suggesting that when he stood up and spoke on the Senate floor and said things that were absolutely false, that he did so knowingly and maliciously. I would certainly give the senator from Illinois the benefit of the doubt that he was in error rather than deliberately misstating facts.”
“But the facts are now clear. We have a rule in this body, Rule 19, to reprimand any senator who impugns the character and integrity of another senator. I’m not going to seek refuge in that rule, although I think there’s an argument that I could.” Cruz said. “But I will say this that once the facts have been made clear, I hope my friend from Illinois will show the same principle Newsweek showed, to apologize, to say he was wrong for calling me a liar on the Senate floor and then going to Twitter to do so twice.”
According to Fitch Ratings the fiscal year 2021 federal deficit as a proportion to GDP is expected to be the greatest since WWII, tying fiscal year 2020 despite the shut down of businesses that year. Fitch Ratings writes, “The FY 2021 federal deficit is likely to reach 15% of GDP, equaling the FY 2020 deficit as a share of output. Last month, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected a deficit of 10.3% of GDP in FY 2021, including pandemic relief spending of $900 billion passed at the end of December. Fitch had expected and largely factored this in at its July rating review.”
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Cruz told Democrats “it is clear” payments are going to illegal immigrants and criticized Sen. Dick Durbin
Speaking on the Senate floor Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed Democrats for forcing a $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill through Congress while rejecting his amendment to stop funds from going to illegal immigrants. He told Democrats “it is clear” payments are going to illegal immigrants and criticized Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) for misinforming the Senate about whether “illegal aliens would receive… stimulus checks.
“It is clear and indisputable that a significant number of illegal immigrants will receive checks and are receiving checks right now. All 100 members of this body were misinformed by the Democratic senator that no illegal aliens would receive … stimulus checks,” Cruz said, referring to Durbin. “So I want to give my colleagues a chance to adopt the amendment now with the correct information, with the true information, with the factual information.”
“I would note as well, in these deeply partisan times, it’s easy for Republicans to throw insults at Democrats. Its easy for Democrats to throw insults at Republicans. Far too much of that occurs,” Cruz continued. “The senator from Illinois, who is a friend who I’ve served with for nine years, the talented senator, I am not here suggesting that when he stood up and spoke on the Senate floor and said things that were absolutely false, that he did so knowingly and maliciously. I would certainly give the senator from Illinois the benefit of the doubt that he was in error rather than deliberately misstating facts.”
“But the facts are now clear. We have a rule in this body, Rule 19, to reprimand any senator who impugns the character and integrity of another senator. I’m not going to seek refuge in that rule, although I think there’s an argument that I could.” Cruz said. “But I will say this that once the facts have been made clear, I hope my friend from Illinois will show the same principle Newsweek showed, to apologize, to say he was wrong for calling me a liar on the Senate floor and then going to Twitter to do so twice.”
According to Fitch Ratings the fiscal year 2021 federal deficit as a proportion to GDP is expected to be the greatest since WWII, tying fiscal year 2020 despite the shut down of businesses that year. Fitch Ratings writes, “The FY 2021 federal deficit is likely to reach 15% of GDP, equaling the FY 2020 deficit as a share of output. Last month, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected a deficit of 10.3% of GDP in FY 2021, including pandemic relief spending of $900 billion passed at the end of December. Fitch had expected and largely factored this in at its July rating review.”