White man speak with forked tongue.
Ted Cruz's wife, a Goldman Sachs exec, is taking a leave of absence from Goldman during her husband's White House run. This move leaves the Cruz family without Goldman's gold-plated medical insurance plan.
Now what?
Cruz, who has been campaigning against Obamacare, is signing up for Obamacare.
The Texas senator was previously covered by a Goldman Sachs plan that was worth at least $20,000 a year, according to a 2013 report from The New York Times.
Cruz has previously boasted that he was not forced to buy coverage under ObamaCare. As a freshman senator in 2013, the Republican firebrand’s efforts to defund the ObamaCare reform law led to a government shutdown and rocketed him to the national stage.
Lawmakers can receive subsidies to pay for their health care through the exchanges, but it was unclear whether Cruz planned to accept one.
In his speech Monday announcing his 2016 run, Cruz pledged to repeal “every word of ObamaCare.” ...TheHill
The Cuban Canadian Texan apparently sees no irony in his move.
USA Today's immigration reporter has been keeping an eye on the Princeton/Harvard graduate and his "people like me" immigration policy.
From barring undocumented immigrants from ever becoming U.S. citizens to remaking our immigration system into one that welcomes mostly university-trained foreigners, Cruz has made clear that he celebrates only a certain kind of immigrant. ...
...Cruz proposed an amendment to triple the size of the Border Patrol from the 20,000 currently patrolling the Southwest border to 60,000. He proposed quadrupling the number of drones, helicopters, radars and sensors along that border. If the federal government couldn't certify that it had achieved "100% operational control" of the nearly 2,000-mile border, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security would face pay cuts and federal immigration enforcement money would be transferred to border states, including Texas. ...USAToday
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“Ted with nukes, Ted with nukes, let’s see,” Senator Lindsey Graham said on Monday, at the Council on Foreign Relations. He stroked his chin theatrically; the C.F.R. members in the room were already laughing. (I was the moderator at the event, and had asked about his confidence in a President Cruz’s handling of a nuclear crisis.) How about the other possible nominees, including Scott Walker, who has said that his fights with labor unions have prepared him to confront ISIS with nuclear weapons? How would Chris Christie deal with enemy supply-line traffic? The idea of another Bush handling the wars in the Middle East is a less amusing image than Ted with nukes, but it’s still not comforting. There may be many reasons Ted Cruz won’t win, from money to support in key states. But outlandishness alone won’t be enough. ...AmyDavidson,NewYorker
