Ted Cruz actually said...

"And if you want to understand the Green New Deal it is to bring the failed energy policies of California to force them on the rest of the country."

"The advocates of the Green New Deal like to pitch their proposals in high sounding rhetoric, but the reality of their proposals are that they would do four things."

"you would impose trillions of dollars of costs on African-Americans, on Hispanics, on low income Americans, and you would drive up poverty across the country."

"California according to the Census Bureau's latest calculation 15.4 percent of California residents lived in poverty from 2018 to 2020."