Last week on The Kudlow Report, I asked Republican Senator Ted Cruz if he’d go with a government shutdown if it came to it on the debt-ceiling debate. His answer: “I think we have to be prepared to go so far as to shut the government down — if we don’t get some serious policies to stop the out-of-control spending, to tackle the debt, and to get economic growth.”

It was a bold statement. Watch the full video here: