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

One of the reasons politicians don’t often engage in massive overhauls of the American economy is that it’s very difficult to ...

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst's comments and video have led to a shift in Crystal Ball's rating of the 2026 Senate race from "safe ...

Senator Joni Ernst defended her \"we all are going to die\" statement made at a heated town hall regarding a GOP-backed ...

Sen. Joni Ernst faced backlash for her sarcastic apology video after making insensitive remarks about Medicaid cuts and death at a town hall, with political analysts David Axelrod and Scott ...

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

Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) on Monday for her sarcastic video response to backlash she faced over remarks about Medicaid cuts and death during a town hall last week. “It was really insensitive of her to ...

Sen. Joni Ernst's "we all are going to die" remark has letter writers concluding that Ernst is an elitist who punches down on her constituents.

Iowa Republican Joni Ernst said the quiet part out loud at her town hall on Friday in Butler, Iowa, when an attendee yelled out, “People are going to die!" after she shrugged off Medicaid cuts in ...

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 ...

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