Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday during a heated Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing over the Biden administration’s foreign policy failures.
“You have presided over the worst foreign policy disaster of modern times,” Cruz began in his grilling of Blinken. “When Joe Biden became president, he inherited peace and prosperity in the world. We now have two simultaneous wars waging—the worst war in Europe since World War II and the worst war in the Middle East in 50 years. Both, I believe, were caused by this administration’s consistent weakness.”
Cruz said that the administration’s foreign policy was “precisely backwards from what a rational American foreign policy should be,” including attacking and weakening U.S. allies while emboldening and strengthening U.S. adversaries.
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