Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan’s comments that the government shutdown in 2013 was a “suicide mission” by Republicans aren’t “beneficial.”

“I like Paul Ryan, he’s a good man,” Cruz in an interview with the Tea Party News Network. “I will say I don’t think it is beneficial when Republican leadership throws rocks at conservatives — at conservative activists across this country.”

Cruz calls it a “lie” that is “simply not true” that Republican shut down the government.