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.”
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