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California Bans State-Funded Travel To Iowa. Ted Cruz Hilariously Educates Them.

Hank Berrien
California Bans State-Funded Travel To Iowa. Ted Cruz Hilariously Educates Them.
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Last Friday, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced that California would ban state-funded and state-sponsored travel to Iowa because the state passed a law barring the funding of gender-transition surgeries under Medicaid, making Iowa the 11th state that California has placed on its travel ban.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), seizing the opportunity, hilariously pointed out something that the California government might have missed: their ban would impede the chances of their own senator, Kamala Harris, from traveling to the state that is the first nominating contest in the Democratic Party presidential primaries. He tweeted, “Wow, California’s ban on travel to Iowa’s really gonna hamstring Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.”

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