The clip is short and you can’t hear the crowd telling Republican Iowa Senator Joni Ernst that Twitter user @dabbs346 writes was them warning “people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts,” in the Big Beautiful Bill, but it’s hard to imagine what else she could’ve been responding to. That’s the kind of response a politician would give when they don’t have an actual answer to angry voters.
Her colleague Tim Scott was much cheerier about cutting government benefits Friday, thanking God for Trump having the wisdom to task Elon Musk with removing 300 year olds from Social Security.
Unuttered in this brief clip is why people born 51 years before the Declaration of Independence would’ve been added to the Social Security rolls at age 210 in 1935 when the system was established and an estimate of how many of them were removed, whether the checks were actually being cashed, and maybe some specific examples of the names and locations of the tricentenarians.