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John Thune Gets Fact-Checked on His Excuse for Why He Couldn't Pass the SAVE America Act

Republican social media users rushed on Tuesday to fact-check Senate Majority Leader John Thune after he made several untrue statements about the Senate filibuster while speaking on Fox News.

Appearing early that evening “Special Report with Bret Baier” on Fox News, Thune defended his decision to not break the filibuster and pass the SAVE Act by arguing that the Founding Fathers had designed the filibuster.

“For people out there in America, this is the way the Founders designed the Senate, to work exactly this way, to make it hard to do things,” he said.

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V. Saxena is a seasoned conservative news writer and commentator with a decade of experience in the industry. When not at work, he can be found working out or tending to his popular bird feeder.




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