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Republican senator for Texas
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Cruz votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Cruz’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
| Biden margin | Biden score | Biden plus-minus |
|---|---|---|
| Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s | How often Cruz votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Cruz’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-5.6% | 14.8% | -50.4 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Cruz vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 7 | Allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices; extending Affordable Care Act subsidies; expanding tax credits for renewable and clean energy efforts; establishing a 15 percent corporate minimum tax; and other measures (50-50) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No |  | 41.8% | -41.8 |
| Aug. 4 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Ted Cruz's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 32.2% | +67.8 |
| July 27 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 66.8% | -66.8 |
| June 23 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 71.1% | -71.1 |
| June 16 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Ted Cruz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 89.7% | +10.3 |
| May 26 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Ted Cruz's Vote: Not Voting | oppose | Didn't Vote | 41.0% | ||
| May 3 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Ted Cruz's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 9.6% | +90.4 |
| April 7 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 49.0% | -49.0 |
| March 15 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Ted Cruz's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 22.0% | +78.0 |
| March 15 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 66.6% | -66.6 |
| March 10 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 71.3% | -71.3 |
| March 8 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 82.2% | -82.2 |
| March 3 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Ted Cruz's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 42.2% | +57.8 |
| March 2 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Ted Cruz's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 39.9% | +60.1 |
| Jan. 19 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Ted Cruz's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 28.7% | +71.3 |
| Jan. 13 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Ted Cruz's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 34.6% | +65.4 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.8% | -41.8 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Ted Cruz's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 20.2% | +79.8 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 77.9% | -77.9 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 75.1% | -75.1 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.9% | -41.9 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 72.7% | -72.7 |
| July 29, 2021 | Providing emergency funding for Capitol security in response to the Jan. 6 attack and for the expansion of the Afghan visa program (98-0) Ted Cruz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 22, 2021 | Expanding voting rights and strengthening campaign finance regulations and ethics rules (50-50) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.8% | -41.8 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.8% | -41.8 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 69.1% | -69.1 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 59.4% | -59.4 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 43.5% | -43.5 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 49.8% | -49.8 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 97.9% | -97.9 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 50.7% | -50.7 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Ted Cruz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.1% | +0.9 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 75.3% | -75.3 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 44.2% | -44.2 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Ted Cruz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 16, 2021 | Nomination of Isabella Casillas Guzman to be administrator of the Small Business Administration (81-17) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 85.9% | -85.9 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 54.5% | -54.5 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 71.2% | -71.2 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 75.3% | -75.3 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 68.7% | -68.7 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 42.5% | -42.5 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Ted Cruz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 89.3% | -89.3 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 71.4% | -71.4 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 67.3% | -67.3 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 81.8% | -81.8 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 92.9% | -92.9 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 93.0% | -93.0 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 56.8% | -56.8 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 88.9% | -88.9 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 84.8% | -84.8 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 90.6% | -90.6 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Ted Cruz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.3% | +1.7 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Ted Cruz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 72.4% | +27.6 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Ted Cruz's Vote: No | support | No | | 91.3% | -91.3 |
| Average | 14.8% | 65.3% | -50.4 | |||
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