Western Journal reported that Republican social media users moved quickly to fact-check Senate Majority Leader John Thune after his Tuesday appearance on Fox News about the Senate filibuster and the SAVE Act.
What Thune said on Fox News
According to Western Journal’s account of the interview on “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Thune defended not breaking the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act. The outlet quoted him saying, “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.”
The pushback, per Western Journal
Western Journal characterized several of Thune’s statements about the filibuster as untrue and said Republican social media users “rushed” to fact-check him. The report did not include specific posts or name individual users in the excerpt provided.
Why it matters
Per Western Journal, the on-air exchange centered on whether to change Senate rules to pass the SAVE Act (the outlet’s headline referenced the “SAVE America Act”). The dispute, as described by the outlet, turns on how leaders justify keeping or breaking the filibuster.
