“The filibuster, if it does not get reformed, still means that maybe 30% of the population potentially controls the majority of Senate seats.”
What PolitiFact found
That's all it would take to successfully wield the filibuster, but given today's partisan patterns in the states, it's not enough to assemble a 51-seat majority.
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In short
Barack Obama (Former president) made this claim around 1 June 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 June 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Barack Obama has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- nytimes.comhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-barack-obama.html?campaign_…
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