Cruz on Blanche's Senate GOP meeting: 'Fireworks at an epic level'
Key takeaways
- There were fireworks at an epic level, and I got to say it s one of the roughest meetings that I ve seen in my entire time in the Senate.
- The Texas senator said there are several GOP senators who are just really, really unhappy, such as Sen.
- Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who has clashed with Trump over a variety of issues this Congress and is set to retire at the end of the term, and Sen.
Why this matters: political developments that affect policy direction and public trust.
Ted Cruz (R-Texas) says that about half the Senate Republican Conference blasted acting Attorney General Todd Blanche at an explosive meeting in the Capitol on Thursday, summing up his GOP colleagues anger over a proposed $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund as fireworks at an epic level.
Cruz said he was surprised by the outpouring of anger and frustration directed at Blanche in the Capitol s wood-empaneled Mansfield Room when Blanche showed up to defend the administration s proposal to compensate people who believe they were unjustly investigated or prosecuted by the Biden-era Justice Department.
There were fireworks at an epic level, and I got to say it s one of the roughest meetings that I ve seen in my entire time in the Senate. There were a lot of Republican senators who were just pissed, Cruz said on his podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz.