During a conversation on Trump’s first 100 days in office, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told ABC News Live on Monday that he has been urging the president to use his leverage to lower tariffs instead of maintaining high retaliatory tariffs.

“I think the president has a fork in the road, a real choice right now with a very good option in front of him and a very bad option in front of us,” Cruz told ABC News’ Eva Pilgrim. “The very good option is that I think President Trump today has enormous, unprecedented leverage to negotiate with our trading partners and to get much, much lower tariffs for U.S. goods and services at trading countries all around the world.”

“I have urged President Trump, go down that road, use that leverage,” he continued. “Doing so, I think, would be a historic victory for American jobs, for American workers.”

The second possible road is to impose high retaliatory tariffs permanently, which Cruz warned would be “disastrous.”

“I think it would hurt the state of Texas. I think would hurt our country,” Cruz said. “There are voices within the Trump administration advocating both paths, and so what I’ve told the president over and over and over again is choose path number one. It will be a huge victory for American jobs and American workers.”