Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed Senate Republican leadership this week over the controversial border bill, arguing that they were helping House Democrats defeat the majority that Republicans have in the House.
Cruz made the remarks during an episode of his “Verdict” podcast with host Ben Ferguson while talking about how negotiations have gone over the last several weeks and the split the bill has created among Congressional Republicans.
“Senate Republican leadership has basically declared war on House Republicans,” Cruz said, adding that at the conference’s weekly lunch meeting, there have been highly charged confrontations over the contents of the bill. “And I had been standing up, as have a number of other conservatives making the case against this, and many of my Republican colleagues are getting really pissed off.”
He said that Republican senators have been pressing…
