A brisk weekly recap that leans on shutdown politics and tax policy.
Verdict with Ted Cruz, Week in Review, opens with Eric Swalwell ending his campaign and quickly shifts into the policy arguments Cruz wants to press next.

A sitting senator argues the week's news.
Ted Cruz and Ben Ferguson work through tax policy, government funding fights, border security, and the scandals engulfing Washington. The framing is unapologetically conservative, and Cruz brings legislation he wrote himself into the discussion rather than commenting from a distance.
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Verdict with Ted Cruz is a conservative news-and-politics show built around two voices who already agree and are showing their work. Ted Cruz and Ben Ferguson release episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and also carry the show on radio stations, YouTube, and Facebook. The structure rarely varies: a news hook, a quoted claim or reported allegation, then a long argumentative stretch that ends in a verdict. Tax policy is a recurring anchor. One episode walks through tax day with Cruz citing filers who claimed new deductions for overtime and tips, and noting that the tips provision was legislation he wrote. Government funding is the other constant. Cruz warns of a shutdown ahead of a September deadline and pitches a bill he calls Keep America Flying, framed as protection for air traffic controllers and TSA funding. He is openly frustrated with colleagues he thinks cannot see past the next vote. Ferguson carries more of the investigative material. A bonus episode covers a task force that suspended hundreds of California hospice businesses over alleged fraud, with figures on what the schemes cost taxpayers. Another lays out misconduct and employment allegations surrounding Eric Swalwell, and here the show does something worth noting — it flags that the underlying complaint came from a figure reporting describes as a conspiracy theorist, and separates active investigations from proven claims. That instinct for procedural distinction sits alongside plenty of blunt partisan judgment. New York City governance comes up repeatedly, with commentary on Mamdani and on taxes driving residents out. Democratic policy failure is treated less as a series of mistakes than as a pattern the show believes repeats by design. The vocabulary draws on legal and congressional territory, but always lands back in plain talk-radio phrasing. Sentences run long when the argument is being built, then snap short when the point is made. Listeners are treated as already informed and already skeptical, not as newcomers who need the basics. Digressions are permitted when they sharpen the case — a hypothetical, a historical parallel, a sidebar on media coverage. Sponsor reads and cross-promotional segments from the broader radio network appear throughout, sometimes at length. What separates this from the rest of the conservative commentary field is simply the seat Cruz occupies: he is describing bills he filed, votes he expects, and floor strategy he is part of. That does not make it neutral. It makes it inside.
Made for: Conservative listeners who follow congressional politics closely and want commentary from inside the legislative process rather than from the sidelines. Best suited to people already skeptical of Democratic policy and federal spending.
What sets it apart: Most political podcasts analyze legislation from the outside; this one is co-hosted by a sitting senator discussing bills he personally wrote and funding fights he is party to. It also pairs that access with a co-host who runs reported segments on fraud investigations.
Join Senator Ted Cruz and co-host Ben Ferguson as they break down the most important news stories of the day and reveal what they mean for you. On "Verdict with Ted Cruz,” you will go behind the scenes of the political debates that define our country. "Verdict with Ted Cruz" is being brought to you by Jobs, Freedom, and Security PAC, a political action committee dedicated to supporting conservative causes, organizations, and candidates across the country. In 2022, Jobs, Freedom, and Security PAC plans to donate to conservative candidates running for Congress and help the Republican Party across the nation.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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A brisk weekly recap that leans on shutdown politics and tax policy.
Verdict with Ted Cruz, Week in Review, opens with Eric Swalwell ending his campaign and quickly shifts into the policy arguments Cruz wants to press next.
Political fallout, market strength, and a blunt gun-rights segment keep it moving.
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Verdict with Ted Cruz starts with Eric Swalwell ending his campaign.
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