Sen. Joni Ernst (D-IA) posted a sarcastic apology video after she downplayed the concerns of her constituents about Medicaid cuts at a townhall. Writer-at-large at The Bulwark Tim Miller, National ...

By now, I’m sure you all have seen U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst's statement to an Iowa town hall audience, after a woman cried out that people are going to die because of Medicaid cuts.

Joni Ernst apology video recorded in a graveyard That's not a health care policy — that’s a horoscope for the terminally screwed. As you can imagine, the internet didn’t love it, because losing your ...

Updated: May 31, 2025 / 06:52 PM CDT (The Hill) — U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) doubled down on a recent quip about Medicaid in a Saturday post on her Instagram story. “Hello, everyone.

Iowa GOP Sen. Joni Ernst has delivered a backhanded apology for acknowledging everyone dies during a town hall that included frustration over Trump Medicaid reforms. Ernst sparked controversy when ...

Ernst, who hasn't formally announced she is seeking reelection in 2026, brought in $723,000 in the second quarter, slightly ...

Perhaps Sen. Joni Ernst, in invoking her Lord and Savior in an "apology video" for her comments that "we are all going to die," might want to remember that her Lord and Savior commanded his ...

When a crowd member said the Medicaid cuts would cost lives, Ernst responded, "Well, we all are going to die." The next day, she posted a sarcastic apology video while walking through a cemetery.

Ernst's response was, " Well, we all are going to die." If that ridiculously glib statement wasn’t enough, Ernst's sarcastic “apology,” given in a cemetery, was even worse.