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Latest Fact-Checks On Ted Cruz

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Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 21, 2019 a press release
"As you know, we apprehended over 144,000 people in a single month. That is a pace, which if it continues for 12 months, would put us on a pace for nearly 2 million apprehensions on the border."
Mostly False
By Madlin Mekelburg • June 27, 2019
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 16, 2018 During a debate in San Antonio
Says Beto O'Rourke "voted in favor of a $10 a barrel tax on every barrel of oil produced in the state of Texas."
Mostly False
By Johnathan Silver • October 19, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 16, 2018 a Senate debate
With the Republican-backed tax cut, "we’re seeing the result, and to date, federal tax revenues have gone up."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 19, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 28, 2018 a debate
California "is hemorrhaging population."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • September 28, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 21, 2018 a debate at Southern Methodist University
Says Beto O’Rourke described police as "modern-day Jim Crow."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 4, 2018 a video
Says Beto O’Rourke said he’s grateful that people are burning or desecrating the American flag.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 5, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 28, 2018 an online video ad
Says Beto O’Rourke "voted against" Hurricane Harvey "tax relief."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 29, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 3, 2018 a video ad made public by the Texas Tribune
Says Beto O’Rourke is "open to abolishing ICE."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 6, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on July 17, 2018 a campaign press release
Says Beto O’Rourke is "the only candidate to the U.S. Senate to call for" impeaching President Donald Trump.  
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 25, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 11, 2018 an interview aired on "Think," produced by KERA radio in Dallas
"There’s actually a court order that prevents keeping the kids with the parents when you put the parents in jail."  
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 18, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 4, 2018 an interview
Says "Rosie O’Donnell apparently committed the same offense five times, five times, when she broke the identical law that Dinesh (D'Souza) was prosecuted for."
False
By Manuela Tobias • June 6, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 1, 2018 a tweet
Says Beto O’Rourke had a "resolution to legalize all narcotics--including heroin and other deadly opioids."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 2, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 11, 2018 a commentary on the Fox News website
Says Facebook shut down a "Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 23, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 6, 2018 an audio ad distributed to news organizations
Says Beto O’Rourke wants "open borders and wants to take our guns."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 15, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 7, 2018 an interview on CNN's "New Day"
"The Obama administration had cut $300 million from school safety."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 9, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 22, 2018 an interview
"I have consistently opposed shutdowns."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 23, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on December 19, 2017 Senate floor debate of federal tax legislation
"Every taxpayer, their taxes are going down, except rich people in Manhattan and San Francisco. Some of them, their taxes may go up."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 5, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 6, 2017 an interview with Shannon Bream of Fox News
"In 2010, 48,000 felons and fugitives lied and illegally tried to purchase guns. They [The Obama administration] prosecuted only 44 of them."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • November 10, 2017
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 6, 2017 Fox News interview
"The Democrats filibustered the legislation that would’ve resulted in this shooter being in federal prison instead of murdering those innocents in that Texas church."
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • November 10, 2017
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 30, 2017 remarks before the NE Tarrant Tea Party group
On preserving 60-vote threshold to end a Senate filibuster.
Full Flop
By W. Gardner Selby • October 20, 2017
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