One of the reasons politicians don’t often engage in massive overhauls of the American economy is that it’s very difficult to defend a massive overhaul of the American economy. However good any given plan is,

Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa told an audience “Well, we all are going to die,” in response to concerns that Medicaid cuts woud lead to more deaths

State Representative J.D. Scholten, a Democrat from Sioux City, said that he was not originally planning to launch a new campaign on Monday. But after he heard U.S. Senator Joni Ernst’s responses to a person who expressed fears that people will die because of Republican budget cuts to Medicaid and food assistance,

U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) gave a curt answer to a voter during a contentious town hall when discussing the latest changes to Medicaid that were passed in the House GOP package earlier this month. She was defending the cuts endorsed by House Republicans, saying that only those ineligible for benefits would be cut from the program.