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Ted Cruz: “They passed the New Deal, they passed the Great Society…”

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

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And I went through in the last hundred years what had happened. Every time the Democrats had had the House, the Senate and the White House and they pass fundamental transformations of this country. They passed the New Deal, they passed the Great Society, they passed Obamacare and Dodd Frank. like when they have control, they, they push the pedal to the metal and they floor their socialist left wing plans. Republicans, we are piddly. We don't do nearly as much. (28:20–28:26)

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Asserts that Democrats passed the New Deal, Great Society, Obamacare, and Dodd-Frank.

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