Ted Cruz has told millions of Americans who lost their unemployment benefits to "get a job".
The US senator from Texas took to Twitter to dish out unsolicited advice after sharing a headline that read "Jobless Americans have few options as benefits expire."
"Um, get a job?" Cruz, who led a January 6 effort against the certification of Joe Biden's election victory over Donald Trump, tweeted in response, per Insider.
"There are millions of vacancies, and small businesses across the Nation are desperate for workers," he added.
More than 7 million Americans across the country have lost their emergency federal jobless benefit on Monday, September 6, with another 3 million set to also lose their extra $300 monthly stare unemployment benefit.
What's more, the White House has said there are no plans to extend federal benefits.
Per Yahoo News, the benefits were brought in by Congress at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, and are now being ended despite the Delta variant raging across the US.
Officials have distributed around $680 billion in emergency unemployment benefits since March 2020, when the economy was hit hard by the pandemic.
And it's safe to say that Cruz's blunt tweet raised eyebrows on social media, as many didn't hold back in their responses to the senator.
"Can you tell us where to get a job like yours?" wrote one person, pointing out all the benefits enjoyed by an elected US senator.
Another added: "If only there was some kind of job that paid $174k to tweet and fly to Cancun when your state was in crisis."
While a third wrote: "Do you know any jobs where you can take your family on vacation while the people you’re supposed to be serving are in the middle of a crisis?"
The ABC News article that Cruz retweeted and critiqued reported that the relief efforts had allowed Americans who lost jobs during the coronavirus pandemic to afford essentials like food, gas, and rent and enabled them to pay their bills.
"The end of the pandemic unemployment benefits will be an abrupt jolt to millions of Americans who won't find a job in time for this arbitrary end to assistance," Andrew Stettner, a senior fellow at the left-leaning think tank The Century Foundation, told ABC News.
