Joni Ernst Stoops to Shocking Low When Told Medicaid Cuts Will Kill

Photo: U.S. Senator Joni Ernst eating at Cattlemen’s Beef Quarters at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr. CC BY-SA 2.0. Article by Hafiz Rashid. The New Republic – May 30, 2025.

Republican Senator Joni Ernst had a particularly unhinged response to questions from her constituents at a town hall in Parkersburg, Iowa, on Friday. Ernst was asked about the GOP’s budget bill kicking people off of Medicaid, and her condescending answer quickly became callous and flippant as the Iowa politician smirked at the audience. […]

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