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

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.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called for a proper assessment to prevent future tragedies such as the flash flooding in Texas, asking that this not dissolve into “partisan games.” Cruz addressed the flooding in central Texas,