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U.S. Senator — Texas
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Ted Cruz has a decade-old deregulation bill with his name on it, a Commerce Committee gavel, and a public case built on LNG export politics and anti-carbon-tax pledges. A Cruz presidency would open with the most aggressive pro-production executive-order sequence of any 2028 contender — and run straight into the statutory limits his own record keeps describing.
Vance, Rubio, DeSantis and Cruz on one side; Newsom, Harris, Whitmer, Shapiro and Ocasio-Cortez on the other. Across immigration, AI, taxes, energy, healthcare, education, defense and regulation, every would-be first-100-days agenda sorts into the same five buckets — and the buckets, not the candidates, decide what actually happens. Scenario analysis, not a prediction or endorsement.
Ted Cruz co-sponsored the Mandatory E-Verify Act of 2026 — a bill to make every U.S. employer run new hires through the federal verification system. A scenario analysis of how much of that agenda a Cruz administration could execute in 100 days, and what the E-Verify data says about the system it would inherit. Not a prediction. Not an endorsement.
Ted Cruz wrote the No Tax on Tips Act, saw it folded into the 2025 tax law, and designed the Trump accounts he calls Social Security personal accounts in disguise. In a Cruz first 100 days, the tax code is already his — what's left is the second act: making temporary deductions permanent and finishing what he started.
Ron DeSantis erased climate change from Florida law and banned offshore wind in state waters; Ted Cruz has spent a decade legislating oil-and-gas dominance from the Senate. Both are Republican energy maximalists — but their first 100 days would diverge sharply on offshore drilling, LNG, and who Congress works for. Scenario analysis, not a prediction or endorsement.