Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the END CRT Act on Thursday, a bill that would block federal funding from racial training programs in workplaces that push Critical Race Theory.

Cruz said that CRT is a "Marxist ideology that sees the world as a battle, not between the classes - as classical Marxism does - but between the races."

Earlier this week, Cruz also called CRT "as racist as the Klansmen in white sheets."

The media and leftist politicians have been quick in recent weeks to defend CRT over a growing national reaction against the ideology being taught in the workplace and schools, and have blasted GOP leaders such as Cruz for their opposition to CRT, calling them racist in the process.

Others such as the Discovery Institute's Chris Rufo point out that the founding documents of CRT clearly show the ideology is based on the idea that racism is an automatic aspect of people with European heritage, that America's systems are fundamentally built on racism and oppression and must be overturned, and that resources must be redistributed in a Marxist framework based exclusively on race.

In addition to Cruz's Senate bill, Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) also introduced a companion bill in the House.

"I grew up attending segregated schools in the Jim Crow South during a time when people were treated differently based on the color of their skin," Owens said. "Critical Race Theory preserves this way of thinking and undermines civil rights, constitutionally guaranteed equal protection before the law, and U.S. institutions at large."

In his reasoning for the bill, Cruz added that the government "has no right to force a political agenda onto Americans, especially one that aims to tear down our institutions and divide us based on race."