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Ted Cruz: Texas has some of the lowest energy prices in the country, its cost of living is affordable. There’s a reason people are…

On the recordFebruary 22, 2021
Texas has some of the lowest energy prices in the country, its cost of living is affordable. There’s a reason people are fleeing the state of New York. There’s a reason people are fleeing the state of California, the grid failed 4 million Texans. And so we need to have a serious examination about why that was, why the grid came short, but one of the major elements of that is actually the policy that Schumer is pushing for the whole country, which is the Green New Deal.
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Ted Cruz
Republican · Texas
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msnbc.com

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Ted Cruz discusses the energy crisis in Texas and blames policies associated with Chuck Schumer and the Green New Deal.

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