Hey guys, welcome to relatable happy Wednesday. All right, today we are talking about Republicans voting against a price cap on insulin.

Is that really true or is there more to the story?

We will also be talking to Senator Tim Scott. You're probably seeing his name in the news right now.

He's got a lot to say.

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All right, I first want to talk about the thing that you guys have been messaging me about which is this headline that the GOP blocked an insulin price cap.

So this is the same kind of deal that we talked about a couple weeks ago when you were hearing that Republicans blocked access to birth control and that they also tried to make it illegal to allow gay people to get married.

We debunked those claims. Then we're going to debunk this claim now.

Always when you hear something that is too good to be true for the other side or too bad to be true about Republicans, there's always another side of the story and that's probably true in general, but particularly when it comes to things that Republicans do simply because the media

leans so far to the left that you can almost always bet that they're not telling the full story in their headlines.

And a lot of you were seeing these posts shared on Instagram these graphics saying Republicans voted against making insulin cheaper. They hate diabetics. They're not pro life. All of this stuff. Of course, but it's missing a lot of context and it's missing a lot of explanation.

So let me tell you how the hill describes what went down and why people are talking about Republicans voting against this price cap.

So their headline is Democrats failed to overrule parliamentarian on insulin price cap as GOP votes know.

So Senate Democrats fell short of an effort Sunday to overrule a decision by the parliamentarian that effectively struck down a proposal sponsored by Senator Raphael Warlock to cap out of pocket.

Insulin cost at $35 a month for people not covered by Medicare.

Senator Lindsey Graham Republican of South Carolina, the ranking member of the budget committee, such as forced the parliamentarians ruling that Warlock's cap on insulin prices violated the bird rule because it would set prices in the commercial market and therefore couldn't pass with the simple majority vote.

Senate Democrats insisted on a vote to waive the procedural objection to put Republican senators on record, including Senator Ron Johnson, Republican from Wisconsin, the most vulnerable member of the GOP conference on the record as opposing a popular proposal to rein in insulin prices.

So they broke the rules. They broke the budgetary rules.

They broke the procedural rules and the parliamentarian of the Senate tried to enforce that rule and Democrats tried to overrule it to make sure that they could get Republicans on the record voting against the price caps on insulin.

Why? Because it is politically advantageous to them. Of course this goes both ways Republicans do this to Democrats, but you never see the widespread vitriol.

When an amendment or any kind of bill is pushed by Republicans that the Democrats vote no one.

You just don't see the mainstream media reporting on it the way that they report negatively on Republicans.

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