Ted Cruz attempted to list off the five government agencies he would eliminate as president.
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“Five major agencies that I would eliminate”, he said.
Cruz left out the Department of Education from his list of cuts, based on the list he has on his website and from an op-ed he wrote for the conservative National Review Online.
The debate mess reminded observers of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s infamous struggle during a 2011 debate to name the three agencies he wanted to do away with.
In a moment a few people compared to one of the most memorable debate gaffes in recent history, Cruz named the same department twice when listing the federal agencies he would eliminate.
While making his case for cutting the size of government at Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee, Sen. “We’re exhausted of being told it’s anti-immigrant – it’s offensive”, Cruz said.
I will say for those of us who believe people ought to come to this country legally and we should enforce the law, we’re exhausted of being told, it’s anti-immigrant. “And we can embrace legal immigration while believing in the rule of law”.
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“In a debate night devoted to economics, only Ted Cruz treated immigration as an economic issue that can harm the lives of ordinary American wage-earners”, Roy Beck, the president of Numbers US said in a press release. Cruz’s flub may not cost him as much as it did Perry, but it did come at a time when he can ill afford to make any missteps as he tries to rally from behind in the polls to overtake Senator Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, and Ben Carson.
