Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, slammed his GOP colleagues for appeasing Democrats and raising the debt ceiling in a recent CNN interview.

He said in an interview with CNN's Dana Bash that Republican leaders misled their constituents with a "show vote."

"Republican leadership said, 'we want this to pass, but if every senator affirmatively consents to doing it on 51 votes, then we can all cast a vote no and we can go home to our constituents and say we opposed it,'" Cruz said in the interview, which airs Thursday.

"And listen, that sort of show vote, that sort of trickery to the constituents is why Congress has a 13 percent approval rating."

Cruz, a Tea Party favorite, has been consistently criticized for his tactics, including his filibuster earlier this month in an attempt to block the vote to raise the debt ceiling.

According to TIME, a number of Republicans voted with Democrats to break Cruz's filibuster, although the Senate voted along party lies to raise the debt ceiling.

"In my view, we need to be honest with our constituents," Cruz said. "And last week, what it was all about was truth and transparency. I think all 45 Republicans should have stood together and said, 'of course not.'"

Two key Republicans, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Minority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, voted to end Cruz's filibuster.

Cruz had called for a 60-vote threshold to end the debate, but Republican senators decided to cast a cloture vote to end the debate.

Twelve Republican senators in total voted to invoke cloture, along with 53 Democrats and two independents. The bill then went to the floor, and was approved 55-43 along party lines.

The other Republicans who voted against Cruz were: Sens. Susan Collins, Maine; John Barrasso, Wyo.; Jeff Flake, Ariz.; Bob Corker, Tenn.; Orrin Hatch, Utah; Mark Kirk, Ill.; Mike Johanns, Neb.; John McCain, Ariz.; John Thune, S.D.; and Lisa Murkowski, Alaska.

"What I said at the outset was that I am not going to affirmatively consent to giving [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid the authority to do this," Cruz continued. "It's irresponsible, and it's sending our nation's future down the road."

Yet, he denied that he "threw five Republicans under the bus."

"My response is, I don't want to throw any Republicans under the bus," Cruz said. "I want to see all 45 Republicans stand together and actually do what we tell our constituents we are going to do."

Watch a clip of the interview below.