Texas Sen. Ted Cruz met with President-elect Trump late Tuesday afternoon, hours after the incoming Republican president convened a meeting of his top transition staffers to review key appointments he will need to make before his inauguration in mid-January.

"Sen. Cruz is pleased to have the opportunity to meet with President-elect Trump in New York today," Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said in a statement.

The Texas senator is not involved in Trump's transition operation, though Frazier said he is eager to assist the next administration with its goals of repealing Obamacare and pursuing "cost-effective, patient-centered health care reform," appointing conservative justices to the Supreme Court, enforcing immigration laws and passing legislation "that will create more good-paying jobs for the American people."

"On behalf of the 27 million Texans he represents, the senator looks forward to assisting the Trump administration in achieving these objectives," she said.

After a vicious primary cycle and a now-infamous speech at the GOP convention in July, Cruz announced that he would be voting for Trump just weeks before last Tuesday's election. The ultra conservative Texas senator commended Trump for an "amazing victory for the American worker" after he soundly defeated Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 election.

"This affirms what we have long known, that Americans have resoundingly rejected the Obama-Clinton agenda of bigger government, intrusive regulation, executive overreach, and lawlessness that is killing innovation and jobs, squandering opportunity for working men and women, marginalizing our freedoms, and compromising our security," Cruz said in a statement last Wednesday.

The Texas senator did not speak with reporters upon entering Trump Tower Tuesday afternoon for his meeting with the president-elect.