Cruz says Biden’s appeasement of US enemies has taught them ‘the worse they are, the more money’ they get

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said the United States’s enemies have learned through the Biden administration’s appeasement that they receive more money “the worse they are.”

Cruz made his statement while discussing the U.S.’s response to the war between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group, with some Republican lawmakers expressing concern over Iran’s involvement in it. The Texas senator argued that the Biden administration’s approach to all of its enemies, including Russia, North Korea, and China, is “appeasement.”

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“Their response, I gotta tell you, they have taught our enemies that the worse they are, the more money Joe Biden will give you,” Cruz said during an appearance on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures.

Cruz also mentioned the deal that the Biden administration made with Iran consisting of an unfreezing of $6 billion in exchange for the release of five U.S. citizens being held prisoner, which Cruz described as essentially “ransom money.” Upon the agreement of the deal, Cruz predicted that it told other countries that U.S. hostages are worth $1.2 billion and that Iran and other enemies of the U.S. would seek to take more U.S. citizens hostages.

“They [Iran] now have roughly two hundred Israeli hostages and about a dozen American hostages, so I’m sorry to say, that prediction came through within weeks.

The White House has defended its decision to unfreeze the money despite the recent attacks Hamas made against Israel. National security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Oct. 10 that the president “has no higher priority than to get Americans home.”

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“Right now, we have Americans who are being held hostage by Hamas and Gaza,” Sullivan said. “That is a high priority. Bringing those Americans home from Iran was a high priority from Afghanistan, from Venezuela, from other places as well, and we stand by bringing those people home because that is the duty of the commander in chief — to get innocent Americans out of captivity in places that they are being unjustly detained.”

In the wake of the White House’s defense of its Iran deal and the Hamas attacks, Senate Republicans have introduced legislation to permanently freeze the $6 billion in Iranian assets. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) argued that it is “perplexing” that the Biden administration has not decided to freeze the money and explained that the U.S. needs to ensure “not another dollar goes to Iran.”