The Republican chair of the Senate Commerce Committee urged President Donald Trump to support international efforts by an airline trade group to raise the mandatory pilot retirement age to 67, a move opposed by the Air Line Pilots Association,

The Texas senator affected a mobster accent to criticise how ABC was pressed to take action on the late-night host.

The president said the FCC chairman was a courageous patriot for taking on broadcast networks that criticized him.

Donald Trump will regret pushing to get Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show taken off air, Ted Cruz has warned. The Texas senator, who has emerged as the most prominent conservative critic of Kimmel’s cancellation, claimed the US government’s “mafioso” tactics could be used against Republicans by a Democrat president.

When Ted Cruz’s strategy to defund the Affordable Care Act led to an epic government shutdown fight a dozen years ago, Democrats excoriated him as a villain. Now, they’ve adopted the same tactic, though with the opposite goal — preserving Affordable Care Act and other health-care subsidies.

GOP Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday denounced Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr’s threats to pull ABC’s broadcast license as “unbelievably dangerous” and compared some of his rhetoric to “mafioso” tactics.

Speaking on the podcast alongside co-host Ben Ferguson, Cruz argued that Kimmel was suspended not just because of controversial remarks about Kirk’s assassination, but because of poor ratings, ABC’s declining revenue, and a refusal to apologize.

Texas, discusses the legacy of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk before the memorial service at State Farm Arena in Glendale, Arizona on ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, the Republican who leads oversight of the Federal Communications Commission, joined Democrats on Friday in criticizing FCC Chair Brendan Carr's recent threats against Disney and local broadcasters for airing "Jimmy Kimmel Live."

Top MAGA podcaster and commentator Ben Shapiro is speaking out against the Trump administration’s role in pulling Kimmel off the air. Following criticism from Republican Senator Ted Cruz about Federal Communication Commission chair Brendan Carr acting like a character out of Goodfellas,