Justice Department ‘politicized’ under Biden, Ted Cruz believes Pam Bondi will turn things around
As Senate confirmation hearings for several of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks get underway, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is particularly eager to see former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi removed. Confirmed as America’s top law enforcement official.
“Pam Bondi did a great job in her confirmation hearing,” Cruz said in a Fox News digital interview on Thursday. “She will be confirmed. She will be the next attorney general. And I believe, virtually, every nominee in the Trump Cabinet will be confirmed.”
Cruz said Bondi, who is also Trump’s personal attorney, “is probably the most important Cabinet nominee President Trump has ever appointed.”
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Sen. Ted Cruz says he believes Bondi will follow through on her statement that she will investigate migrant children missing in the U.S. (Fox News Digital/Getty)
“The reason is that under Joe Biden, sadly, we’re seeing the Department of Justice being politicized and weaponized, how they’ve turned the Department of Justice and the FBI into an arsenal, which is unprecedented in the history of our country. There is no precedent.
During Bondi’s hearing on Wednesday, Cruz asked her if she would investigate the thousands of migrant children who enter the United States unaccounted for.
Bundy responded: “Yes, Senator.”
Asked if he was confident she would follow through if confirmed, Cruz said: “I’m confident.”
“These are unaccompanied minors, little girls, little boys, who come into this country and are in the custody of the federal government and the federal government turns them over to adults,” Cruz said. “A lot of the adults are not relatives and are now They lost their loved ones and didn’t know where they were.”
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Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Justice as attorney general, will participate in a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, at the Capitol in Washington. (Ben Curtis/AP)
Republican lawmakers have criticized the Biden administration’s handling of the illegal immigration crisis over the past four years.
Shortly after Trump won the election in November, house republicans Questioned Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra about the process the administration uses to vet sponsors.
Becerra spoke before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement to testify about his department’s Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is responsible for the care and housing of unaccompanied immigrant children.
Republican subcommittee members accuse Biden administration of rushing migrant children out of the hands of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and into the hands of unvetted sponsors who sometimes exploit and abuse them.
Cruz said he also asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick for health and human services secretary, to investigate missing immigrant children “because we have an obligation,” he said.
"Those are children in government custody," Cruz said. “We have an obligation to protect those children.”
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Immigrants line up outside the Immigration Re-Vote Center at St. Brigid School on East 7th Street in New York City on Friday, January 5, 2024. (Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
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Bondi has the support of current and former state attorneys general across the country and more than 100 former senior Justice Department officials. The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on her nomination in the coming days.
If the committee approves the nomination, the full Senate will schedule a vote to confirm her appointment. Although the exact date for the final confirmation vote has not yet been announced, it is expected to take place within the next two weeks.
Fox News Digital’s Luis Casciano contributed to this report.
