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She’s still a Bushie in good standing and if not for the Bushes she’ll be filing out people’s tax returns.

In 2000, she worked on Bush for President campaign, where she met her husband Ted Cruz.[4] In 2003, she worked for the Bush administration as a top deputy to U.S. Trade Rep. Robert Zoellick, focusing on economic policy.[4][2][23] She eventually became the director for the Western Hemisphere on the National Security Council under National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice in 2003.[4][2][22][24] Cruz remembered liking her tenure with the Bush administration and found her work to be “personally fulfilling.”[25]

After commuting to see her husband for a year,[26] she left Washington DC in 2004 to be with her husband, who working as the Solicitor General for the State of Texas.[4][27] Cruz did not see this as her giving up her career but merely as relocating, and she took her time to become used to the new environment, initially difficult since most of her family was in California and she had several colleagues in New York.[25]

In 2005, she joined Goldman Sachs, serving as a private wealth manager[28] and is currently the Region Head for the Southwest Region in the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs in Houston.[2][22][29] Peter Conway, Cruz’s employer, assisted in her recruitment and was impressed by her being among the first to arrive and last to leave, remembering her doing well in a field of men. Conway would later recommend her to lead the office. Cruz used politics to gain common ground with her clients and deployed her husband to join her in meeting with potential investors.[26] She had served as vice president for seven years before the promotion in 2013.[30] She took a leave of absence without pay for her husband’s 2016 presidential campaign.[27] Cruz later said the absence was the result of her belief that America was in danger.[31]