Sen. Ted Cruz is celebrating the passage of bipartisan legislation that stands to decrease America’s manufacturing dependence on China.
The legislation cuts bureaucratic red tape to build or expand four bridges across the Rio Grande in Texas and “benefits national security, because it makes it easier to bring manufacturing back from China, either to the United States or to Mexico,” Cruz, R-Texas, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview Friday.
Four new or expanded Texas bridges across the Rio Grande—one in Brownsville, one in Eagle Pass and two in Laredo—are “enormously consequential for trade and commerce,” Cruz said, explaining that truck drivers face significant backups to get across the current bridges, creating backlogs and slowing goods from reaching consumers.
“Texas and Mexico do about $800 billion in trade and commerce going back…
