Senator Ted Cruz, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released a statement following the Trump administration's decision to designate branches of the Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan.
Cruz stated, “President Trump and Trump administration officials are systematically targeting the Muslim Brotherhood and its branches, including through President Trump’s Executive Order last year and by implementing the strategy for designations laid out in that order. These measures were advanced despite overwhelming resistance, lobbying, and obstruction from supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood abroad and from career bureaucrats across the U.S. government. I applaud and am deeply grateful for the President’s leadership in securing these achievements.
"These steps are critical to the national security of the United States and to protecting Americans from the jihadist terrorism promoted by the Brotherhood. President Trump’s Executive Order laid out a bottom-up strategy of designating individual Muslim Brotherhood branches as a way of countering the global Muslim Brotherhood, and I am confident that the President will pursue further measures and designations.
"I have been leading the fight in Congress to secure designations for my entire tenure in the Senate, and that bottom-up strategy is written into legislation I authored, the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025. In the Senate, that legislation has secured bipartisan support, and I urge my colleagues to expeditiously advance it.”
Cruz has previously introduced similar bills related to this issue several times since 2015. The current version of his bill has ten cosponsors from both parties.
Senator Cruz has maintained his seat through multiple election cycles. He won re-election against Colin Allred in 2024 with just over half of voter support at 53.1%. In earlier races, he defeated Beto O'Rourke in 2018 with 50.9% of votes and Paul Sadler in 2012 with 56.5%.
