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.

Republican Sen. Joni Ernst defends proposed Medicaid cuts: ‘We all are going to die' Her comment came in response to an attendee who yelled that proposed GOP cuts to Medicaid would cost lives.

If death and taxes are the only certainties, Joni Ernst is here to cut one and fast-track the other. “We all are going to die," she said. You might think that’s a line from a nihilistic French play.

Ernst apologized. "I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely apologize for a statement that I made yesterday at my town hall,” she said the day after in an Instagram video. She continued, "I ...

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst (R) pushed back against constituents who shouted out at her recent town hall meeting that cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) would cause ...

We’re all going to die anyway. It was her first town hall of the year, held at 7:30 in the morning at a rural area two hours away from Des Moines — possibly to keep national attention off the ...

If that ridiculously glib statement wasn’t enough, Ernst's sarcastic “apology,” given in a cemetery, was even worse. She’s in a graveyard, using dead people as props, looking eerily like ...