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Ted Cruz: “Illegal border crossings dropped more than 99%.”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

A Historic Year of Victories

Published December 19, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:44

We came in, the border was wide open. The worst illegal immigration in history. We now have a president and an administration that will follow the law. Illegal border crossings dropped more than 99%. That is incredible. Tom Holman at the White House this week was talking about, he's worked under, I think it's five, six presidents crazy. (01:44–01:49)

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“Over $100 billion in securing the border.”
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“We invested $150 billion in rebuilding the military.”
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“We invested $10 billion in NASA and commercial space, and in particular in going back to the moon.”
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“There are over 50,000 high paying jobs in Texas that are directly connected to space.”
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“The biggest accomplishment was the reconciliation bill that President Trump signed on July 4th.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 02:07-02:14
“The working families tax cut is an accurate name.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 02:38-02:42
“If we had not done that in two weeks on, on January 1st, there would have been a $4 trillion tax increase.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 03:36-03:45
“There's never been a hundred billion dollar investment in securing the border.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 05:06-05:10
“I am the chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. That committee covers about 40% of the US economy.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 07:06-07:14
“We invested 24 and a half billion in the Coast Guard.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 07:26-07:33
“It's between 11 and 12 billion [the annual budget of the Coast Guard].”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 07:32-07:40
“We invested more than 200% the annual budget of the Coast Guard into the Coast Guard.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 07:44-07:51
“We don't have the capability right now to build Arctic ice cutters.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 08:21-08:26
“Davies announced a billion and a half dollars investment in a shipyard in Galveston, Texas to build those ships.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 08:32-08:41
“I wrote into the working families tax cut, a mandate that the federal government auction off 800 MHz of spectrum to the private sector.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 09:48-09:57
“That is going to generate over $100 billion for the U.S. government.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 10:01-10:01
“We invested 12 and a half billion dollars in terms of modernizing our air traffic control.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 12:32-12:38
“The ROTOR act is designed to mandate that all aircraft in the sky use what's called ADS B technology.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 14:30-14:39
“The Army Black Hawk helicopter had ADS B technology installed. They had it turned off.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 15:02-15:09
“The ROTOR act mandates, number one, that the military follow the same rules as everybody else.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 15:29-15:35
“The Senate just passed this week the National Defense Authorization act.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 15:53-15:58
“Someone in the House of Representatives dropped a provision in in the dark of night that would have allowed the army to keep Ads B turned…”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 16:03-16:13
“This week I passed the ROTOR act and repealed that provision.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 16:13-16:18
“When the House passes it and the President signs it, which I think will happen in January, everyone will be safer flying.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 16:17-16:23
“Every taxpayer in America can give up to $1,700 to a scholarship granting organization in the states.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 18:11-18:21
“It is going to produce tens of billions of dollars of scholarships for kids in K through 12 education all across the country.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 18:49-18:59
“I've been fighting for school choice for 30 years.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 20:17-20:20
“Next year on July 4, every child in America is going to have a personal investment account open for them.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 22:09-22:17
“Newborn children will have a thousand dollars automatically [in their investment accounts].”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 22:17-22:21
“Parents, families, employers can put up to $5,000 a year in a tax advantaged account.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 22:23-22:31
“All of that will be invested in the S&P 500 [or] a broad based equity index.”
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“By the time she is 18, she will have $170,000 in that account.”
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“By the time she's 35, she will have $700,000 in that account.”
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“China has said publicly they are going to go to the moon by 2030.”
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“The objective is for us to land on the moon by 2028, two years before China.”
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“I predicted for a long time. The first trillionaire is going to be made in space.”
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“Another provision I wrote in the bill, we zeroed out CAFE standards.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 29:54-29:58
“They're the rules the Biden administration put in place to drive up the cost of your car and drive up the cost of your truck.”
A Historic Year of Victories | Uploaded December 19, 2025 | 29:59-30:07
“They wanted to ban the internal combustion engine.”
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“We zeroed it out. The effect of that is going to be to lower the cost of you getting a car or a truck, lower it by thousands of dollars.”
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“It also is going to save lives, just as you said, because you'll be able to make cars that are safer with more steel and less plastic.”
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“I drafted a bill that's called the Take It down act, that number one, makes it a crime, makes it a felony to post non consensual intimate…”
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