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Ted Cruz: “The price of oil didn't move at all. It had essentially no…”

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

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Interview with Senator Ted Cruz on Iran, China, and U.S. Economic Policies

Published | Video Starts at 01:58

And we now know that energy was right and State was wrong. Iran's oil sales fell from a million barrels a day down to 300,000 barrels a day. And The price of oil didn't move at all. It had essentially no impact on the global price of oil. When Joe Biden came into office, he inherited an Iranian regime. The economy was in free fall. The regime was, was, was teetering. (01:58–02:03)

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Asserts that ending the oil waiver did not affect the global oil price.

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