Cruz denounces lack of any ‘mean­ing­ful’ bor­der secu­ri­ty pol­i­cy in House-passed for­eign aid pack­age

Sen. Ted Cruz (R‑TX) lament­ed the lack of any “mean­ing­ful” efforts to secure the south­ern bor­der after the House passed a $95 bil­lion for­eign aid pack­age on Saturday.The Lone Star state sen­a­tor empha­sized that the “most dis­ap­point­ing” part of the pack­aged deal is its lack of any mean­ing­ful bor­der poli­cies. How­ev­er, he did note while speak­ing on Fox News’s Sun­day Morn­ing Futures that “the best parts of the bill” was the $26.3 bil­lion in aid to Israel includ­ed in the mea­sure.
He also praised the leg­is­la­tion for includ­ing a pro­vi­sion that would force Chi­nese-owned ByteDance to divest from its stake in the social media giant Tik­Tok.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R‑Texas, speaks dur­ing a news con­fer­ence on Capi­tol Hill in Wash­ing­ton, Tues­day, Feb. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Mag­a­na)

On Sat­ur­day, law­mak­ers vot­ed 215–199 to defeat a bor­der secu­ri­ty bill, known as the End the Bor­der Cat­a­stro­phe Act, that was sep­a­rate from …