Response from senator Ernst to milling on Medicaid: NPR

American senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, speaks to journalists while heading for a Senate lunch at the American Capitol on November 19, 2024.

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The republican senator of Iowa, Joni Ernst, faced intense questions of his voters during a Friday town hall, causing cries and hoots of the members of the community for his support for his support for President Trump A great act of bill.

The first speaker offered Ernst a matter of softball, telling the National Guard veteran that her only request was for her to be the guest gathering to the American Legion for the Memorial Day next year.

But just a few minutes in the One hour session In the county of Butler, in Iowa, the tenor quickly changed. The crowd became tense and Ernst appeared Flip and defensive.

Ernst has been dotted on several occasions on the thousand pages bill several times, many participants focusing on cuts offered in safety net programs like Medicaid And INSTANT. Ernst defended the bill, arguing that people eliminated from these programs would be people who were not eligible to benefit from it in the first place.

“When you argue on the illegals that receive the advantages of Medicaid, 1.4 million (people) … They are not eligible, they will go out,” said Ernst.

Someone in the crowd shouted in response: “People will die.”

“Well, we’re all going to die,” said Ernst. “For the sky sakes, friends,” she continued with a smile.

The crowd, which had already become hostile to the tone of Ernst, broke out in roars of disapproval.

The GOP budget package is radical legislation that would provide massive tax reductions to rich and oblique bars for social programs, including Medicaid and food assistance.

A version of the invoice barely passing In the House earlier this month-with a final vote of 215-214.

But the law faces a repression to the Senate on concerns concerning some of the most substantial aspects of the legislation, who understands: extend Trump’s tax discounts in 2017 – with around 3.8 billions of dollars in discounts overall, largely for the best employees in the country; Increase the national debt ceiling by $ 4 billions; And expensive costs on asylum seekers and those who sponsor unaccompanied minors.

As written, the bill should add thousands of billions to the country’s debt over the next decade.

The bill now involves the process of reconciliation – A complicated process of the Senate which would allow the Republicans to avoid an obstacle of the Democratic legislators and to transmit the bill to a simple majority.

Back at the Iowa town hall, Ernst continued to express himself with the voters for his support for these changes.

In another stormy exchange, a man – who identified himself as a navy veteran and the retired school – toasted Ernst about the authoritarian style of governing Trump.

“Are you afraid of Trump? Are you corrupt like Trump? Or are you just to the point that you don’t care about it and that is why you do nothing?” Asked the man.

His answer sparked another cycle of dissident cries.

“Obviously, I do not agree because I do not think our country is destroyed,” she said when the crowd offered cries of protest.

After the event, Ernst posted a message On social networks, appearing non -Bothers by the turn of events at the town hall.

“”Thank you to people for coming to my town hall in Parkersburg today, “she wrote.” I always like to hear voters and share my work to cut the government’s administrative formalities for you. “”