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BREAKING: Senator Chris Murphy pounces on Republican Senator Joni Ernst for mocking the idea that people will die from Medicaid cuts after she dismissively stated that "we’re all going to die."
This is the worst political PR nightmare in recent history...
"I think everybody in that audience knows that they’re going to die," Murphy said on CNN, referring to Ernst's already-infamous remarks.
When asked at a town hall about the fact that Republican cuts to Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will result in Americans dying, Ernst was unbothered.
"Well, we’re all going to die," she said. Ernst made matters even worse by doubling down in a later video in which she stated that that she "made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that, yes, we are all going to perish from this Earth."
"So I apologize, and I’m really, really glad that I did not have to bring up the subject of the tooth fairy as well," she added.
Senator Murphy had no patience for such callous comments—
"They would just rather die in old age at 85 or 90, instead of dying at 40. And the reality is that, when you lose your health care, you are much more at risk of early death," he said.
"And when rural hospitals close because of this bill, when drug treatment clinics close in Iowa and rural America because of this bill, more people will die at a younger age," he continued. "So the reality is this bill is about life and death and for what?"
"I mean I guess that's the problem here for many of us, is that they're cutting Medicaid, throwing 15 million people off their healthcare in order to fund a tax cut for the super wealthy and corporation," Murphy said.
"That is just fundamentally immoral. It's immoral and it's unethical," he continued. "I don't understand why they're doing it except that Donald Trump only really knows billionaires. He only knows corporate CEOs and so his instructions to Republicans are reward them, help them, and no one else."
"I wish Joni and others saw the immorality of what they're doing," added Murphy.
Unfortunately, Ernst's disregard for the lives of Americans is hardly surprising. In fact, it's emblematic of the deep rot that has taken root in the Republican Party. They no longer care about even pretending to stand for anything beyond cruelty.
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