Wow, Senator Ernst!
You just piled up the BS in a short time!
First you say “everyone is going die”, then you try to ease your sad thoughts by walking thru a cemetery apparently apologizing for your ridiculous statement.
These idiotic GOBers never learn!
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by Ashleigh Fields - 05/31/25 3:16 PM ET
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) doubled down on a recent quip about Medicaid in a Saturday post on her Instagram story.
“Hello, everyone. I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely apologize for a statement that I made yesterday at my town hall,” Ernst said in the clip, with a sarcastic tone.
On Friday, the Iowa Republican was jeered after brushing aside life or death concerns about cuts to Medicaid, a public health insurance program for low income families and individuals with disabilities.
“See I was in the process of answering a question that had been asked by an audience member, when a woman who was extremely distraught, screamed out from the back corner of the auditorium, people are going to die,” Ernst said Saturday.
“And I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that, yes, we are all going to perish from this earth. So I apologize, and I’m really, really glad that I did not have to bring up the subject of the tooth fairy as well,” she continued.
More:
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5327320-ernst-medicaid-comment-response/
If her constituents don’t want to die when Republicans cut Medicaid, Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst suggests they should simply embrace Jess Christ
By Andrew Perez, Naomi LaChance
MAY 31, 2025
Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) speaks during a press conference on Jan. 23, 2024 in Washington, D.C.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) doubled down on Saturday on her flippant remarks about people dying due to Medicaid cuts in a new Instagram video that appeared to be recorded in a cemetery.
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When an audience member shouted, “People are going to die,” Ernst responded: “Well, we all are going to die.” Her unfunny joke drew headlines around the country, and was featured prominently on the front page of The Des Moines Register on Saturday.
In a video posted on her Instagram story on Saturday, Ernst, who is up for reelection next year, decided it was wise to mock her constituents who do not wish to die due to a lack of health insurance.
“Hello, everyone. I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely apologize for a statement that I made yesterday at my town hall,” she says in the clip, which features gravestones in the distance behind her. “See, I was in the process of answering a question that had been asked by an audience member, when a woman who was extremely distraught, screamed out from the back corner of the auditorium, ‘People are going to die.’ And I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that, yes, we are all going to perish from this Earth.”
More:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250601010632/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/joni-ernst-medicaid-die-non-apology-trump-cuts-1235352090/
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