The Half-Truth and the Full Truth
The Half-Truth and the Full Truth November 1, 2025 The mainstream media is perpetuating a massive lie by not publishing the truth. Chuck Scammer, Hakeem Olé Jeffries, and other Democrats keep saying that the Republicans control every branch of government; that we are in the middle of a Republican shutdown! But that claim is not the whole truth; it’s a half-truth. People are aware that the Republicans hold the majority in the House and the Senate, and that the President is a Republican, so Schumer’s pitch makes sense to them. However, the key point here is control. The Democrats still hold a control feature in the Senate that gives them enough power to shut down the government and blame the Republicans. It’s the cloture vote. Cloture is a process used to determine whether legislation deserves an up-or-down vote. In other words, it is a readiness vote that determines whether to proceed with a vote on the main issue. Cloture requires 60 votes to allow the Sena...