She said officers “monitored his movements” while Cruz was at the airport. Ted Cruz, nor does anyone at the White House,” Psaki said, adding that the Biden administration is focused on “working directly with leadership in Texas and surrounding states on addressing the winter storm and the crisis at hand.”Ĭruz’s office declined to answer specific questions about the family vacation, but his staff reached out to the Houston Police Department on Wednesday afternoon to say the senator would be arriving at the airport, according to department spokesperson Jodi Silva. “I don’t have any updates on the exact location of Sen. “Instead of focusing on relief, they’ve chosen to go on Fox News to spread lies or to board a plane to Cancun.”Įarlier in the day, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki leaned into a question about Cruz’s “whereabouts.” “So many elected leaders in Texas have failed their constituents,” the New York Democrat wrote in an email. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), encouraged her supporters Thursday to volunteer for a “welfare check phone bank” to help Texans affected by the storm. One of Cruz’s most aggressive critics on the left, Rep. Still, Democrats across Washington were eager to talk about the controversy. Ted Cruz squarely in the ranks of cowardly big-screen bad guys. He has nearly four years left in his term, and the unofficial beginning of the next Republican presidential primary election is two years away.Įntertainment & Arts Column: Ted Cruz goes full movie villain with his craven flight to Cancunįleeing to Mexico while his constituents are in crisis places Sen. While the situation may not help Cruz’s political future, the two-term senator is not in any immediate political danger. “This has been an infuriating week for Texans,” he said. In his statement, Cruz said that his family had lost heat and power as well. We don’t have water and we don’t have food,” she said. “They are taking vacations and leaving the country, so they don’t have to deal with this, and we are freezing to death. Livia Trevino, a 24-year-old whose Austin home was still without water Thursday, said she felt abandoned by government leaders. News of Cruz’s absence quickly rippled across the state. In Austin, some hospitals faced a loss in water pressure and heat. Texas officials ordered 7 million people - one-quarter of the population of the nation’s second-largest state - to boil tap water before drinking it, after days of record low temperatures that damaged infrastructure and froze pipes. Hundreds of thousands of people in Texas woke up Thursday to a fourth day without power, and a water crisis was unfolding after winter storms wreaked havoc on the state’s power grid and utilities. “I’m here trying to take care of my family and look after my friends and others that are still without power,” West said. The energy emergency is a “systemic failure,” with major climate change implications. Climate & Environment Wind power didn’t cause the Texas blackouts.
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