Sen. Ted Cruz Rafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump argues full Supreme Court needed to settle potential election disputes Press: Notorious RBG vs Notorious GOP The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by Facebook - Washington on edge amid SCOTUS vacancy MORE (R-Texas) slammed Yahoo News over a report that claimed he "missed the point" being made by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-CortezHouse passes bill to avert shutdown Trump attacks Omar for criticizing US: 'How did you do where you came from?' The Memo: Dems face balancing act on SCOTUS fight MORE (D-N.Y), with the senator arguing that bagels at LaGuardia Airport in New York are expensive because of "government monopoly with a $19 minimum wage" and "medicare for all promises."

"Croissants at LaGuardia are going for SEVEN DOLLARS A PIECE," Ocasio-Cortez wrote to her more than 3.8 million Twitter followers on Monday in a broad argument for a minimum wage of $15. "Yet some people think getting a whole hour of personal, dedicated human labor for $15 is too expensive??"

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"GOP taking every tweet so earnestly, making my point for me," she added in another post. "It’s not an argument against the price of a croissant - it’s about the value of human worth. But I guess that idea is foreign to them since their policies treat people as disposable anyway."

Cruz responded by mocking Ocasio-Cortez on social media.

"Oh the humanity! Here’s the answer: government-mandated FREE CROISSANTS FOR ALL. And we’ll just force the bakers to give all of their time for free," he wrote on Twitter.

Oh the humanity! Here’s the answer: government-mandated FREE CROISSANTS FOR ALL. And we’ll just force the bakers to give all of their time for free. #SocialistLogic #AprilFools https://t.co/1mx00FegwS — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 1, 2019

After Yahoo News stated that Cruz missed the congresswoman's point, he again took to Twitter to argue that workers at LaGuardia already receive a minimum wage of $13.60. That hourly wage will increase to $15.60 later this year and to $19 by Sept. 2023.

"Yahoo News 'reports' I missed @aoc point," wrote Cruz. "Uh, no. (1) LaGuardia croissants are $7 BECAUSE it is govt monopoly w/ $19 min wage. (2) Medicare for all promises 'free' healthcare by forcing doctors (by analogy, bakers) to give away their labor for govt wages."