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Ted Cruz: “We zeroed them [CAFE standards] out.”

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Ted Cruz and Tulsi Gabbard Discuss Alleged Obama Administration Hoax and Major Legislative Victories

Published July 25, 2025 | Video Starts at 34:20

So you used to be the IRS fined you. If you didn't buy health insurance, the IRS would fine you. It is still the law. You're required to buy health insurance, … We zeroed them [CAFE standards] out. … and NPR. This has been a conservative battle for. 50 years and Democrats have been winning for 50 years, unfortunately. And we got this done. I wrote this portion. (34:20–34:27)

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Asserts that CAFE standards have been nullified in the bill.

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“We have stopped a $4 trillion tax increase. If we did nothing on December 31, the Trump tax cuts would disappear.”
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“What we put in one big, beautiful bill is $150 billion to secure the border. It is the largest investment in border security in the history…”
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“$24 billion for the Coast Guard. This is the single largest investment in the Coast Guard in the history of the United States of America.”
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“Under Joe Biden, the United States government stopped making new spectrum available to the private sector.”
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“We will bring in $100 billion to pay down the debt [through spectrum auction authority].”
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“This bill has 10 billion for NASA to go to the moon for the Artemis program.”
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“China has said they intend to return to the moon by 2030.”
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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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“Tulsi Gabbard this week released evidence that Barack Obama and his senior intelligence team deliberately lied to the American people.”
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“August 31st of 2016, a DHS official tells former DNI director James Clapper that there was, quote, no indication of a Russian threat to…”
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“September 2, 2016, the FBI said it was, quote, uncomfortable, implying that there was definitive information that Russia intended to disrupt…”
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“September 9, 2016, quote, the intelligence community concluded that Russia was probably not trying to influence the election by using cyber…”
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“December 7, 2016, here are the talking points that DNI Director Clapper had prepared for him. Quote, foreign adversaries did not use cyber…”
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“December 8, Barack Obama's presidential Daily brief read as follows. Quote, we assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent…”
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“December 9, DNI Director Clapper, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Deputy FBI Director McCabe, they…”
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“They agreed to recommend sanctioning members of the Russian military intelligence because of the Russia hoax.”
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“Deep state officials in the intelligence community began leaking false intelligence to the Washington Post.”
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“The intelligence community had been reporting exactly the opposite [of what was publicly stated].”
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“This was an attempt to overthrow the then newly elected President of the United States.”
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“Tulsi Gabbard made a criminal referral to the Department of Justice.”
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“Pam Bondi launched this strike force.”
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“The people who are most likely to face criminal liability are those senior members of the Obama intelligence community.”
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“James Clapper testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the Russia collusion. And what he said, according to what's been…”
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“In November of 2020, Andrew McCabe testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he lied as well.”
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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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“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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“Texas taxpayers spent over $10 billion to secure the border because Joe Biden and the Democrats refused to do so.”
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“Overall, $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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“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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“There is a multi year stream of buy orders coming from the Coast Guard for these ice cutters that is going to bring back thousands of jobs.”
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“The Coast Guard is critical for securing our border.”
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“In this bill, I wrote the legislation that directs the federal government to auction to the private sector 800 MHz of spectrum for private…”
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“That will generate in excess of $100 billion of revenue to the federal government.”
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“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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“Spectrum is all about beating China to 6G.”
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“This bill invests $12.5 billion modernizing our air traffic control.”
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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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“CAFE standards, the standards that mandate you keep having to have higher and higher fuel efficiency on your cars.”
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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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“The effect of this is going to be tens of billions of new scholarship money in the states for school choice.”
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“The reality is the school choice provision is massive and it's in the bill.”
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“Parents, family, employers can contribute up to $5,000 a year in a tax advantaged 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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“We will see trillions of dollars invested in 401ks for kids in these trump accounts.”
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“School choice is going to literally provide hope and opportunity to millions of kids.”
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