U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) ramped up pressure on President Biden to allow free and fair reporting on the humanitarian, national security, and public health crises at the southern border.

" As Texas' previous Secretary of State, I know firsthand the importance of Border Security. We're seeing the biggest migrant surge at our southern border in 20 years as the Biden Administration continues to encourage illegal border crossings and illegal behavior," said Cong. Roger Williams

This weekend I traveled to El Paso, Texas, where in that sector alone, Border Patrol is seeing a 230% spike in border encounters from last year. DHS Secretary Mayorkas predicts the U.S. is on track to see the highest surge of migrants in 20 years.

People throw around the word “hero” pretty liberally these days, but rarely is it used so accurately than now as I apply it to myself for having forced myself to watch the final episode of The Bachelor on ABC Monday night.

The situation along the south Texas Border has “become so dire that Border Patrol has no choice but to release people nearly immediately after apprehension because there's no space to hold people, even to do the necessary Notice to Appear (NTA) paperwork.”

Gov. Abbott launched the state-funded "Operation Lone Star" in early March to help secure the border and combat the smuggling of people and drugs into Texas. With President Biden failing to respond to the crisis, Abbott's now expanding the operation to fight a rapid increase in Human Trafficking & Illegal Border Crossings.

I’ve found success working with Presidents of both parties. With President Obama, for example, I helped negotiate an end to the 40-year ban on selling crude oil overseas – a historic change that has helped make America "Energy Independent." Unfortunately, after pledging “unity,” the Biden Administration is the most partisan in modern history.

Day after day, the desperate Humanitarian Crisis on our Southern Border produced by President Biden’s reckless political decisions spirals out of control. Gov. Abbott's even said the White House is denying State Officials access to “critical” health data related to the rapidly growing number of unaccompanied minors now being sheltered in Texas.

In the aftermath of Winter Storm Uri, the Railroad Commission has worked diligently with the Texas Legislature, other state agencies, and industry stakeholders to provide meaningful solutions to the challenges that our state faced during the storm.

"The continued expansion of our Save Our Seniors initiative is protecting elderly Texans from COVID-19 and ramping up our vaccination efforts across the state," said Governor Greg Abbott, who launched the program in Corpus Christi in February to ensure more seniors are vaccinated throughout Texas.

Joe Biden's "Homeland Security" Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, has conceded: “We're on pace to encounter more individuals on the Southwest Border than we have in the last 20 years” – and the Biden Administration is dumping these illegal migrants onto the streets of governed by State & Local Officials.

"Appraisals are important to the Property Tax equation because rising values force tax payments higher, even when the actual tax rate does not change,” said State Rep. Steve Allison of San Antonio, filing legislation that seeks to protect Texans from property-tax increases driven by ever-escalating appraisal values.

Cong. Tony Gonzales helped provide Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy and a group of House Republican Members of a tour on the U.S.-Mexico Border in El Paso Monday, and the group toured a Migrant Processing Facility, spoke with Border Patrol Agents, and surveyed vulnerable points of the border.

In 1978, when I was 17 years old, I worked as an usher at concerts and sporting events earning the minimum wage of $2.25 an hour. I had to surrender about .15 cents of this meager wage to a union I was forced to join, and was infuriated over the requirement of confiscation by labor bosses I had never met.

CPS Energy filed a lawsuit this week, against the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to protect their customers from ERCOT’s pricing during Winter Storm Uri.  ERCOT found that CPS Energy was responsible for nearly $20 billion in charges for 5 days of energy.  

"The Biden Administration’s reckless open border policies have created a humanitarian crisis for unaccompanied minors coming across the border. As the Governor of Texas, my responsibility is the Health & Safety of our citizens, and the Administration's lack of planning has created a public health and safety emergency in our state," said Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

"Given how poorly the Federal Government manages many other agencies, I have no confidence in their ability to oversee elections across the country," said Jetton of the U.S. House passed bill HR 1, which is awaiting U.S. Senate consideration and possible approval. If this bill passes, Jetton's legislation would automatically decouple federal races from all others in Texas.

U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) today sent a letter to Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Walensky urging the department to use updated Texas population data for the number of vaccine doses sent to the state in order to account for Texas’ population growth.