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Crockett: ‘Nobody’ elected Ernst to be ‘anybody’s grave digger’
- Senator Ernst from Iowa made a controversial statement at her town hall in June 2025, responding to concerns about Medicaid cuts with, "Well, we all are going to die."
- Her remark followed heated discussions over a Republican-backed budget bill proposing over $700 billion in Medicaid reductions affecting about 80 million people, including children and disabled individuals.
- Besides Medicaid cuts threatening rural hospitals, the National Institutes of Health also stopped $258 million in funding for HIV vaccine research programs weeks before the FDA's June 19 decision on the drug lenacapavir.
- The FDA deadline concerns lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injectable drug that studies found 100% effective in preventing HIV transmission, potentially impacting global HIV rates.
- After backlash, Ernst apologized the following day in a cemetery-filmed Instagram video, stating she wrongly assumed attendees knew mortality was inevitable but affirmed people want medical care to live longer.
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Froma Harrop: The real problem with Iowa's Joni Ernst
What do you do about Joni Ernst? The Republican senator from Iowa is being mocked by liberal media and beyond for her snarky response to a question about cuts in Medicaid: "We all are going to die." That clumsy remark has been skewered for its insensitivity, but its greater significance lies in the bigger issue. Ernst answers to Donald Trump and no one else. She is not alone in this. Bowing down to Trump's demands and caving in to MAGA threats h…
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Grand Forks HeraldFroma Harrop: The real problem with Joni Ernst
What do you do about Joni Ernst? The Republican senator from Iowa is being mocked by liberal media and beyond for her snarky response to a question about cuts in Medicaid: "We all are going to die."
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