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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

Ernst, an Iowa Republican, joked that she thought her constituents 'understood that, yes, we are all going to perish from this Earth.'

Medicaid, GOP and beautiful bill

Opinion

The New York Times · 12d

Republicans Can’t Hide Medicaid Cuts in a ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill

The Republican tax bill would take health insurance from millions of lower-income Americans and give the savings to the wealthiest Americans.

The Hill on MSN · 22h

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

CNN on MSN · 5h

House GOP ‘big, beautiful bill’ would increase the deficit by $2.4 trillion, CBO says

House Republicans’ sweeping tax and spending cuts package would increase the deficit by $2.4 trillion over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the bill that GOP lawmakers narrowly approved last month.

AlterNet on MSN3hOpinion

Expert warns 'gaslighting' Republican plan does 'much more harm' than just gutting Medicare | Opinion

The Republican budget bill that recently passed the House adds onerous work requirements that would push millions of people ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

10hon MSN

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 ...

12h

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 ...

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