GOP Sen. Ted Cruz was on a pre-planned vacation in Greece with his family when devastating floods hit central Texas, and he sought to travel back “as fast as humanly possible,” his office said.

Texas’ junior senator was visiting Greece Friday when the Texas flood turned deadly. Cruz, who did not return until Sunday night, communicated with officials from Athens.

Twenty kids dead in Texas and you take a vacation?” someone asked the Texas senator after spotting him abroad.

In an emotional outburst over the backlash to Cruz’s delayed return to America, Conway said she couldn’t comprehend the “lack of compassion, the heartlessness, the lack of any kind of dignity, love” ...

Senator Ted Cruz flew back to Texas after a devastating natural disaster hit the state while he was on vacation and required him to actually do his job. No, you have not found yourself back in 2021, ...

The Texas senator was visiting the Parthenon in Athens while a massive rescue mission was under way to find flood victims, ...

The Texas senator was seen touring the Parthenon in Athens. His staff said the senator booked the earliest flight back to Texas when he learned of the disaster.

Flight data shows that there were multiple earlier options to get the senator from Athens to San Antonio on July 4 and 5 following a layover at a major US hub.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) was on a family vacation in Greece when deadly floods swept through central Texas — though his office said he flew home as quickly as possible, landing Sunday night. Why it ...

Ted Cruz could have booked numerous flights from Greece to Texas before the one he boarded—despite his office claiming he came home from his European vacation “as fast as humanly possible.” The Daily ...

Amid catastrophic flash floods in central Texas over the 2025 Fourth of July holiday weekend, a rumor spread online that one of the state's U.S. senators, Ted Cruz, continued to sightsee while on ...

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said he called President Donald Trump within the first hours of the catastrophic flooding that hit Texas on Friday. “It was still early in what was transpiring,” Cruz said ...