Cruz Hammers Republicans Who Voted With Dems: ‘Breathed Life’ Into Dem Agenda, ‘Gave Joe Biden A Political Win’

On Sunday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) appeared on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo, and hammered Republicans in the House and Senate who voted for the infrastructure package, saying they “breathed life into” the “failing” Democrat agenda.

“You had an opportunity there to stop this whole agenda, but your colleagues decided not to go that path. You had 19 of your colleagues in the Senate vote for the infrastructure package; you had 13 in the House vote for the infrastructure package,” Bartiromo said. “What exactly did that do? Now, because they did that, the path is wide open for much higher taxes for the rest of us to pay. Isn’t that true?”

“It’s exactly true, and it’s maddening,” Cruz replied.

The senator added that Republicans spent many lunches “yelling at each other” about the bill, with the Republicans who voted for it allegedly under the belief that if the infrastructure package were to pass, the Democrats’ social spending bill would be “less likely to pass.”

And I will tell you, in the House, for the House Republicans who voted for this, Joe Biden and the Democrats, their agenda was on the rails. It was failing. It was on the way to going down. And what those Republicans did is they breathed life into it; they gave Joe Biden a political win. He’ll now go across the country touting, look at this big bipartisan win. And that additional momentum, unfortunately, makes it more likely that they whip their Democrats into shape and pass some multi-trillion-dollar spending bill on top of this that will include, unfortunately, trillions in new taxes. That’s what the stakes are all about. I still hope it doesn’t happen.

PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT:

BARTIROMO: Well, you would have thought that the Democrats saw Virginia and New Jersey as a wake up call to slow things down. In fact, it’s the opposite. You had an opportunity there to stop this whole agenda, but your colleagues decided not to go that path. You had 19 of your colleagues in the Senate vote for the infrastructure package; you had 13 in the House vote for the infrastructure package. What exactly did that do? Now, because they did that, the path is wide open for much higher taxes for the rest of us to pay. Isn’t that true?

CRUZ: It’s exactly true, and it’s maddening. I can tell you in the Senate, we spent week after week at