U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst becomes a dark philosopher at town hall, defending deadly Medicaid cuts by citing the inevitability of ...

When a lawmaker tells you 'we’re all going to die' in response to a policy choice, they’re justifying your suffering.

At a town hall event in Iowa on Friday, Republican Sen. Joni Ernst was asked about planned Medicaid cuts in the “big ...

The outrage over the senator’s glib response to concerns about Medicaid cuts was immediate. Then, Ernst doubled down on her ...

At the town hall, Sen. Ernst defended efforts to rollback benefits for people she said were not supposed to be eligible for ...

Joni Ernst of Iowa is the most recent ... as well,” she said in a video posted to her Instagram story. Ernst, in her Friday remarks, went on to accuse her critics of not wanting to “listen ...

Ernst, an Iowa Republican, joked that she thought her constituents 'understood that, yes, we are all going to perish from ...

One of the reasons politicians don’t often engage in massive overhauls of the American economy is that it’s very difficult to defend a massive overhaul of the American economy. However good any given ...