Headline: Daily Beast, 6/3/2025
Ewan Palmer reports:
Under-fire Sen. Joni Ernst has defended herself once more after going viral for telling constituents concerned about cuts to Medicaid that “We’re all going to die.”
While being pursued by reporters in the U.S. Capitol, the Iowa Republican said: “I’m very compassionate, and you need to listen to the entire conversation.”
Ernst managed to also get out that “we want to protect the most vulnerable” before elevator doors closed behind her.
The GOP senator has been widely criticized for flippant comments she made at a town hall in Butler County, Iowa, last Friday in response to people expressing concerns that may die if they lose access to health care under cuts proposed in President Donald Trump’s One BigBeautifulUgly Bill Act.
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