WASHINGTON – Since President Donald Trump took workplace final 12 months, the conservative trigger has seen a string of victories, in accordance to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
Speaking earlier than the Freedom & Faith Coalition's Road to Majority convention this week, the Texas lawmaker touted not less than seven main wins for religion and households beneath the present administration.
Judges Who Uphold the Rule of Law
It's an accomplishment conservatives proceed to marvel over: President Trump's string of "principled' judicial picks – most notably his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the highest courtroom in the land.
That choose bore fruit this week when the former Tenth Circuit Court choose sided with the excessive courtroom majority which dominated in favor of Jack Phillips. The Christian baker almost misplaced his enterprise after he refused to bake a cake to have a good time a homos3xual marriage ceremony.
"We see it in the federal courts all across the country, we see it in Justice Neil Gorsuch and let me be one to thank God for the victory we had this week in the Colorado baker's case," the Christian Post quotes Cruz as saying.
"If we lived in the sort of society that those who called themselves liberal prescribe, a tolerant society, that would have been the end of the story," he stated of the case. "He would have lived according to his faith and we would have respected that faith and the diversity amongst us. But, there are those with a legal agenda that wanted to drive that baker out of business, to punish him and any other person of faith for daring to live according to their faith."
The Sanctity of Life
Cruz echoed fellow conservatives at this week's convention who hailed Trump as the most pro-life president in historical past.
"We saw the Department of Health and Human Services issue new rules, returning to the old rules prohibiting taxpayer funding from going to Planned Parenthood and clinics that provide abortions," he stated.
"Not only that, but we saw the administration rescind the abhorrent so-called contraceptive mandate in Obamacare – a mandate that was interpreted by the Obama administration to force or to try to force believers to fund abortion-inducing drugs. The consequences of that decision is in the litigation against the Little Sisters of the Poor."
'Thanks for the Pay Raise!'
As said by Cruz, this previous Christmas acquired all the merrier for a lot of Americans when Trump signed a $1.5 trillion tax overhaul into regulation, placing more cash in the pockets of households.
"Cutting taxes on small businesses, cutting taxes on farmers, cutting taxes on ranchers, cutting taxes on families, doubling the standard deduction, What does that mean?" Cruz requested. "For a couple, standard deduction goes from $12,000 to $24,000. That means next year, 90 percent of Americans will be able to fill out your taxes on a postcard."
"We saw over 4 million Americans get pay raises, get bonuses because of the tax cut of $500, $1,000, more than $1,000," he continued. "I was flying a few months ago on Southwest Airlines and a flight attendant walked up to me, hugged me and said 'Thanks for the pay raise.'"
Repealing Obamacare
One of the most egregious components of Obamacare was the regulation's particular person mandate, which primarily fines Americans for not having well being protection.
In what Republicans think about a main accomplishment, that mandate was repealed beneath the tax invoice.
"That is a big conservative victory that no one in Washington thought we would win," Cruz stated. "Look, Obamacare is clearly the biggest unfinished promise that Republicans have. We need to finish the job. We need to keep rolling up our sleeves and finish the job and repeal every single word of Obamacare."
School Choice Amendment
Another main conservative victory, Cruz famous, was the faculty alternative tax invoice modification, which permits dad and mom and households to prolong 529 school funds to pay for Okay-12 training at private and non-private colleges.
"With that, we saw the most far-reaching, federal school choice legislation that has ever passed come into law providing benefits to up to 50 million school kids across the country, enabling parents and grandparents to save for your kids and to save for your grandkids and choose the best education options for them," he stated.
Relocating the United States Embassy to Jerusalem
Perhaps one in all the Trump administration's most daring and notable accomplishments was its choice to acknowledge Jerusalem as Israel's capital and transfer the United States Embassy there.
"We had a year-and-a-half battle in the Trump administration. I energetically argued for moving the embassy and President Trump made the right decision and now our embassy is in Jerusalem, the once and eternal capital of Israel."
The Iran Nuclear Deal
With Iran looming as a safety menace to each the United States and Israel, each Cruz and Trump have lengthy been in settlement that the Obama administration's nuclear accord with the Islamic Republic was a unhealthy deal.
Consequently, when the president introduced he was pulling out of the settlement, nobody applauded louder than the Texas lawmaker.
"The president made the right decision to withdraw from the disastrous Obama-Iran nuclear deal," Cruz informed the Faith & Freedom viewers. "Obama had sent tens of billions of dollars to the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, the Ayatollah Khomeini, who chants, 'Death to America and death to Israel.' When he says that, I believe him."