Ted Cruz is leading the charge in the Senate (and apparently the House) to defund the Affordable Care Act, even as the strategy hurls the country toward a government shutdown on Tuesday. But on Friday night, Cruz told a Texas audience that he plans to keep his Senate paycheck during the shutdown while much of the rest of the government grinds to a halt and other federal employees go without pay. A handful of other senators and members of Congress have said they won't take a salary starting this week if they don't pass a continuing resolution to fund the government, but so far Cruz is the only one to say he has no plans to stop getting paid.
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