Cruz says he returned to Texas as quickly as he could after news of devastating floods broke. Flight data tells a different story.

The Republican senator, who was on a planned family vacation, did not return to his state until 72 hours after the deadly disaster, which his spokeswoman said was as quickly as possible.

As the state quite literally froze over and his constituents went without basic necessities, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and his family booked a flight to Cancún, Mexico, and stayed at the Ritz-Carlton. The New York Times reported that in a group text with friends and neighbors, Cruz's wife, Heidi, revealed she wanted to escape their "FREEZING" house.

The Texas senator was visiting the Parthenon in Athens while a massive rescue mission was under way to find flood victims, our must-read newsletter, The Swamp, reveals.

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, history is just repeating itself.

"The agony that Texas is feeling right now…there aren't words to describe," Cruz told CBS News Texas on Monday.

But Cruz isn’t a traditional politician in the sense that traditional politicians have people who actually like them. Not so much the junior senator from the Lone Star State; Al Franken’s infamous quote remains as relevant today as when he first wrote it: “I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.”

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.

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 vacation in Greece the day after disaster struck his constituents.

The Texas senator was sunning himself by the pool at a Mediterranean beach resort as a deadly storm gathered back home in Texas.....our must-read newsletter The Swamp reveals.

Texas, weighs in on some Democrats politicizing Texas' flash floods and commends the state's 'inspirational' rescue efforts on 'Hannity.'