On 5/21/2024, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) grilled U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the Biden administration’s foreign policy disasters, from President Biden expressing condolences to Iran for the death of the brutal President Raisi to Biden’s decision to delay a shipment of military aid to Israel. During the hearing, Sen. Cruz said, “Mr. Secretary, you have presided over the worst foreign policy disaster of modern times. When Joe Biden became president, he inherited peace and prosperity in the world. We now have two simultaneous wars waging: the worst war in Europe since World War II and the worst war in the Middle East in 50 years. Both, I believe, were caused by this administration’s consistent weakness. And indeed, your foreign policy is precisely backwards from what a rational American foreign policy should be. To our friends and allies, this administration has consistently undermined, weakened, and attacked them. And to our enemies, this administration has shown constant appeasement and indeed has flowed billions of dollars to the enemies of America who want to kill us.”
Cruz also pushed Biden to explain the weapons hold, with Cruz insisting that Biden and Blinken “funded the Oct. 7 attacks” and claiming the administration “cut off weapons to Israel” in an especially testy exchange. “We did not cut off weapons to Israel,” Blinken said. Cruz also accused Blinken of refusing to enforce oil sanctions against Iran, which provides funding to the militant group Hamas, prompting Blinken to say that Tehran is “determined” to get around them.
The senator had questioned the administration’s response to Raisi’s death earlier in the back and forth
In an especially fiery exchange, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told Blinken near the end of the hours-long hearing, “You funded our enemies, and you undermine our friends, and the world is much, much more dangerous as a result and Americans are at greater jeopardy because of it.” Blinken told Cruz, “In fact, we’ve brought more countries together … We were alone, we aren’t anymore, and America’s leading those efforts,” Blinken said as the hearing concluded.
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Sen. Cruz grilled Blinken: cut off weapons to Israel, You funded our enemies & you undermine our friends