'We are all going to die' - Senator's healthcare comment sparks row
During a town hall meeting in Iowa, Senator Joni Ernst addressed an audience member's concerns about reduced spending on Medicaid in President Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Act by saying: "We are all going to die."
The senator went on to post a tongue-in-cheek video from a cemetery saying she made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium "understood that, yes, we are all going to perish from this Earth".
The bill would require able-bodied recipients to work, participate in job training programmes or volunteer for 80 hours a month in order to be eligible for Medicaid, a healthcare programme for low-income Americans.
The measure - which has passed the House but not the Senate - would lower the number of people with healthcare by at least 7.6 million from the Medicaid changes, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
The BBC's Carl Nasman talks through the senator's comment and its backlash.
