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Medicaid, Joni Ernst and GOP

Ernst’s ‘we all are going to die’ quip underscores GOP’s Medicaid challenge

The senator’s sarcasm-tinged response to controversy complicates Republican efforts to downplay their bill’s effects on Americans’ Medicaid coverage.

MSNBC on MSN · 5d

Pressed on Medicaid cuts, Iowa’s Ernst tells constituents, ‘Well, we’re all going to die’

While everyone’s life will eventually come to an end, politicians rarely say, “We’re all going to die” when talking about their health care proposals.

Rolling Stone on MSN · 3d

Joni Ernst Issues Non-Apology for Joke About People Dying Due to GOP Medicaid Cuts

If her constituents don’t want to die when Republicans cut Medicaid, Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst suggests they should simply embrace Jesus Christ

Medicaid, GOP and Trump

Bloomberg on MSN · 7h

Trump Obscures Medicaid Cuts in Bid to Pass Massive Tax Bill

Donald Trump publicly resisted Medicaid cuts — until his budget director, Russell Vought, convinced the president that reductions to heath coverage for low-income people, embedded in the Republican tax bill,

MSNBC · 1d

Medicaid funding in Trump bill exposing GOP divisions

There are growing divisions in the GOP over cuts to Medicaid funding in President Trump's "big, beautiful bill." Also, Sen. Joni Ernst is getting backlash for downplaying her constituents' concerns over Medicaid cuts.

Yahoo · 18h

Medicaid cuts in ‘big beautiful bill’ become flashpoint for GOP

Republicans are increasingly on the defensive over the party’s handling of Medicaid cuts in the party’s “big, beautiful bill,” underscoring how the issue has become an early flashpoint ahead of next year’s midterms.

18hon MSN

Republicans on defense over Medicaid

Republicans are increasingly on the defensive over the party’s handling of Medicaid cuts in the party’s “big, beautiful bill, ...

Medicaid Cuts Are 'Heroic,' Speaker Mike Johnson Says: 4.8 Million Won't Lose Healthcare 'Unless They Choose To Do So'

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) doubled down on his defense of President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill", arguing ...

The Nation on MSN2d

Republicans’ “Big Beautiful” Medicaid Cuts Spur Rural Organizing Innovation

Taking away healthcare coverage isn’t just “morally wrong and politically suicidal,” in Senator Josh Hawley’s apt phrase.

The Poynter Institute for Media Studies1d

House Republicans quietly expanded their proposed Medicaid ban to include trans adults

An amendment filed just before the House vote removed language limiting the ban to minors, broadening its reach ...

Brett Guthrie rarely made waves. Then he was tasked with cutting Medicaid

U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie has long had a "nice-guy" reputation. Now, his role in federal Medicaid cuts is challenging that image.

NBC News6d

Medicaid cuts in Republican bill emerge as an early flash point for the 2026 elections

Even among Republican respondents, just 33% said Medicaid spending should be reduced ... Act and enacted the Trump tax cuts, some in the party warn that the dynamics are different this time.

1don MSN

J.D. Scholten launches run after U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst’s statement on Medicaid

Iowa Rep. J.D. Scholten, D-Sioux City, launched a run to challenge U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst Monday in the wake of her remarks at ...

2don MSNOpinion

It’s not just Medicaid: Republicans’ megabill would sabotage the Affordable Care Act

The GOP has dropped the “repeal and replace” phrasing, but its megabill is an anti-ACA package that would take coverage from ...

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