# ‘Inside Texas Politics’: Ted Cruz, Royce West, Bowie Hogg, and the Pushback to Proposed Federal Budget Cuts to NASA after Artemis II's success.

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Published: 2026-04-17T22:00:00+00:00
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In the April 19 episode, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, pushes back against proposed budget cuts to NASA and argues that Iran will not be a forever war. On Tuesday, Arlington city council votes to spend $273-million dollars to keep the Dallas Cowboys at AT&T stadium through 2055. Council Member Bowie Hogg takes our questions on whether voters should get a say in it. And state Senator Royce West, D-Dallas, says his 1999 law to help minority- and women-owned state businesses get a cut of state contracts needs some tweaking - even as he defends it in court.

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