Republican Sen. Joni Ernst faced a number of agitated constituents at a town hall on Friday who expressed concerns that the Republicans' cuts to Medicaid under their major legislative effort to advance President Donald Trump's agenda would cause people to die.

Iowa, was repeatedly pressed on cuts to Medicaid in the House's budget bill at a town hall and pushed back on an attendee who said the cuts would lead to deaths. "People are not — well, we all are going to die,