{"id":1367743,"date":"2022-03-09T20:05:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T01:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1367743"},"modified":"2022-03-09T20:06:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T01:06:01","slug":"exclusive-watch-ted-cruz-calls-for-congressional-investigation-into-federal-pandemic-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-watch-ted-cruz-calls-for-congressional-investigation-into-federal-pandemic-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Watch: Ted Cruz Calls for Congressional Investigation into Federal Pandemic Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-watch-ted-cruz-calls-for-congressional-investigation-into-federal-pandemic-response%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1367743&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called for a congressional investigation into the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, telling Breitbart News he wants to see \u201cserious oversight hearings examining not only the corruption of science, not only the suppression of dissent, but also the failure of policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coming out of a meeting at the U.S. Capitol with \u201cThe People\u2019s Convoy\u201d \u2014 a trucker movement seeking to end President Biden\u2019s state of emergency declaration \u2014 Cruz spoke to Breitbart News about the Biden administration\u2019s\u00a0\u201cillegal mandates\u201d that have been and are being \u201cused to fire people across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe emergency declaration is a tool used to justify many of the mandates,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cWhether it is doctors and nurses being fired in healthcare facilities all across the country, whether it is truck drivers losing their jobs, whether it is airline pilots or flight attendants \u2014 thousands of them being fired over illegal vaccine mandates \u2014 or whether it is cops, or firefighters, or soldiers, or sailors, or airmen, or Marines, there are millions of people whose livelihoods are threatened by these abuses and these mandates are continuing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there is a growing frustration, a rage, among the American people at these abuses of our rights, and the truckers today are giving voice to that frustration and giving voice to that rage,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere needs to be federal investigations,\u201d Cruz explained, noting that the chances of Democrat participation is \u201cessentially zero.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey are open partisans. \u2026 The corrupt corporate media is the left wing of the Democratic Party. And so, the good news is we will have that oversight a year from now when Republicans retake Congress,\u201d he said, predicting that Republicans take over the House in the midterms and remaining bullish on Republican control of the Senate as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Republicans take over, I hope we have serious oversight hearings examining not only the corruption of science, not only the suppression of dissent, but also the failure of policies,\u201d Cruz told Breitbart News. \u201cIf you look at whether it was the disastrous shutdowns that destroyed millions of jobs, millions of peoples\u2019 livelihoods across this country, or the even more disastrous shutdown of schools \u2014 which has hurt tens-of-millions of school children in America \u2014 and you see Democratic politicians who simply don\u2019t give a damn. They\u2019re willing to arbitrarily inflict that pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the sources of frustration on all of this is the obvious hypocrisy,\u201d he continued. \u201cWhen you see Democrat politicians like Stacey Abrams in the picture seen \u2019round the world sitting there with no mask, grinning ear-to-ear with a classroom full off children forced to mask up to be in her presence, you realize it\u2019s a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19777610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/Capture.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stacey Abrams received backlash for this photo of her sitting maskless surrounded by school children wearing masks. (@HMBrookins\/Twitter)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen you see Democrat politicians like Gavin Newsom or Eric Garcetti at sports games or at fancy dinners with no mask, laughing and yucking it up \u2014 these politicians know what they\u2019re saying is a crock,\u201d Cruz said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">While 5 year olds are forced to mask all day in California, Gavin Newsom and the mayors of LA and San Francisco are enjoying packed events maskless <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dDTLOHaBpo\">pic.twitter.com\/dDTLOHaBpo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1488011633934802954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll tell you in the Senate, for months, Democrat senators, when they go behind closed doors, will take off their mask,\u201d he said, continuing to point out instances of Democrat hypocrisy on masking. \u201cThey\u2019ll laugh, they\u2019ll yuck it up, then they\u2019ll step out and then suddenly they\u2019ll see a camera and, \u2018Oh my goodness, now I\u2019ve got to put a mask on.\u2019 And It\u2019s not science, it\u2019s not medicine, it\u2019s not health. It\u2019s entirely about politics and theatrics. I think people are really fed up with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) have forced votes on the Senate floor aimed at halting \u201call of Joe Biden\u2019s illegal mandates.\u201d Cruz said that he had another amendment \u201cto cut off all federal funds from any government entity that tries to impose a vaccine mandate on children,\u201d explaining that \u201cthe government has no right to force you to give a COVID vaccine to your five-year-old child. It ought to be a parents\u2019 decision, not some petty government official.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe voted on the Senate floor \u2014 sadly, every single Democrat voted to keep those mandates in place,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate did, however, pass a resolution to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/04\/senate-passes-resolution-end-bidens-covid-national-state-emergency-american-people-worn-out\/\">end<\/a> Biden\u2019s emergency declaration, something the president has vowed to veto if it reaches his desk.<\/p>\n<p><em>Breccan F. Thies<\/em>\u00a0<em>is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreccanFThies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BreccanFThies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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