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Ted Cruz: “Reagan couldn't do it. Bush couldn't do it.”

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Ted Cruz Discusses Trump's Second Term Achievements and Legislative Victories

Published July 21, 2025 | Video Starts at 19:17

We talked about, the president talked at dinner when we were at the White House. He said, you know what? Reagan couldn't do it. Bush couldn't do it. And they tried and they tried. They did. I want people to understand the history of this. This is something they tried to do. Couldn't get it done. (19:17–19:20)

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Asserts that previous presidents Reagan and Bush failed to cut PBS and NPR funding.

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“Israel defeated Iran. Took out their nuclear capabilities in one of the most amazing, successful military strikes of our lifetimes.”
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“It is the largest investment in border security in the history of America.”
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“Texas taxpayers spent over $10 billion to secure the border because Joe Biden and the Democrats refused to do so.”
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“The Coast Guard is in our jurisdiction. So I wrote the Coast Guard provision $24 billion for the Coast Guard.”
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“That will generate in excess of $100 billion of revenue to the federal government.”
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“The IRS fined you. If you didn't buy health insurance, the IRS would find you. It is still the law.”
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“The corporate media does not want the American people to know the size, the scope of President Trump's success.”
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“Six months is not a long time to have totally revived a major country.”
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“The USA is the hottest and most respected country anywhere in the world.”
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“The six months that we have seen in 2025 under President Trump's second term, I believe have been the most consequential six months of, of…”
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“We have seen the most conservative victories in any six months period in our lifetime.”
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“The results President Trump has produced [on the border] are utterly unprecedented.”
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“The fact that it was done so quickly demonstrates for all times that what the Democrats did, did was deliberate.”
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“They could have fixed [the border] at any time.”
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“All illegal entry will immediately be halted.”
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“Over 25 miles of concertina, where our US Marines put up for us.”
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“In the first six months, we have secured the border, and we're going to lock that in and make it permanent.”
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“President Trump won a war with Iran.”
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“Under this administration, the enemies of America are terrified of Donald Trump.”
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“Donald Trump didn't invade Iran. He didn't send boots on the ground.”
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“He's not trying to turn Iran into Switzerland.”
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“He acted decisively to take out nuclear weapons being developed to potentially be used against the United States of America.”
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“He is also acting to take out the Houthis who were bombing American ships and harassing American commerce.”
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“Weakness produces more military conflict.”
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“Because our enemies are afraid of President Trump, we are much, much less likely to go to war.”
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“I wrote the Take It Down Act. It is the first bill in years restricting big tech.”
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“It is protecting children, women and teenage girls from non consensual intimate imagery, either real intimate images or deep fakes made…”
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“We passed it through the Senate, we passed it through the House.”
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“Fourth big victory rescissions. This past week we passed the first rescissions.”
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“We cut $9 billion in spending.”
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“We cut a bunch of foreign aid spending.”
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“Most notably we cut the federal funding for PBS and for npr.”
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“There were four no votes. We could only afford to lose three.”
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“We have stopped a $4 trillion tax increase.”
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“We enacted new tax cuts. No tax on tips.”
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“No tax on overtime is in there. No tax on Social Security is in there.”
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“What we put in one big, beautiful bill is $150 billion to secure the border.”
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“This $150 billion we have appropriated it, it is going out the door, and there's not a damn thing Chuck Schumer or AOC can do to stop it.”
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“Over $150 billion to support our soldiers, our sailors, our airmen, our Marines, to build new submarines, to build new next generation…”
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“This is the single largest investment in the Coast Guard in the history of the United States of America.”
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“Right now, China is kicking our ass in the Arctic.”
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“This Coast Guard bill will bring shipbuilding back to America.”
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“The largest holder of spectrum is the United States government.”
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“The United States government stop making new spectrum available to the private sector. They ended auction authority.”
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“I wrote the legislation that directs the federal government to auction to the private sector 800 MHz of spectrum.”
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“I ended up saving over $40 billion, reducing the deficit and the debt by over $40 billion.”
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“By auctioning this Spectrum off, we will open up billions and billions of dollars of private sector investment.”
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“It is going to create hundreds of thousands of jobs.”
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“This bill invests $12.5 billion modernizing our air traffic control.”
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“This bill has 10 billion for NASA to go to the Moon for the Artemis program, for the Gateway program.”
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“China has said they intend to return to the moon by 2030.”
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“It is current US law that it is the policy of the American government to have a sustained human habitation either on the lunar surface or in…”
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“The standards that mandate you keep having to have higher and higher fuel efficiency on your cars.”
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“We zeroed them out [CAFE standards].”
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“In this bill, we passed the single largest and most consequential federal school choice bill in the history of our country.”
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“Every single American taxpayer can now contribute up to seventeen hundred dollars a year to a scholarship granting organization in the…”
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“Starting next year, July 4th of next year, the 250th anniversary of the United States of America, every child in America will have a…”
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“Every newborn child will have it seeded with $1,000.”
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“Parents, family, employers can contribute up to $5,000 a year in a tax Advantage account.”
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“All of that money is invested in The S&P 500 is invested in the stock market.”
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“I think 10 years, 20 years, 30 years from now, these will be the two things everyone remembers from this bill.”
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