Joni Ernst Heckler Is Right – The Republican Budget WILL Kill People

The brave citizen who “heckled” Republican Senator Joni Ernst at her recent town hall event was absolutely correct – the Republican budget bill will result in the deaths of American citizens. And not just in the ways that have been in the headlines – another provision of the bill that hasn’t been talked about enough is the slashing of the funding for a program that subsidizes low-income families so that they can afford to heat their homes in the winter, something that has been proven to save lives. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

So that heckler last week, right? Because that's what the media wants to call this person. In reality, they were just a very concerned citizen. But either way, this individual who stood up during that, now infamous Joni Ert Town Hall, and warned that people are going to die because of that Republican budget bill, that individual, that brave citizen was absolutely correct for more reasons than people realize. Here's what's happening. As we all know, this budget is gonna slash Medicaid kick about 13 to 15 million people off of Medicaid. So they can no longer get healthcare. It's gonna take food outta the mouths of starving children by cutting the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance program. And those are the main ways that this bill could send people to an early grave. But there is another one that has not been discussed enough, and that is buried in this bill is a massive funding reduction to the point of almost a complete elimination of the low income Home Energy assistance program.

So how could the destruction of this program lead to more people dying? Well, the answer is very simple. You see, this program provides home heating assistance for low income Americans. Americans who without this program from the federal government, would not have the money to heat their homes during the winter. Now, if you live somewhere like I live down here in the state of Florida, not having the money to heat your home in the winter is not necessarily a death sentence. However, in the summer when you don't have that money to be able to run your air conditioner and the temperatures top 101 10 or more, that could be a death sentence for the elderly or those, you know, with, with weakened systems. And in the winter, up north in many areas of the country not being able to heat your home, when those temperatures drop to 10 zero degrees, negative degrees with windchill, that is also a death sentence. And depending on the freak weather, you could have heat waves up north that kill people. You could have cold fronts down south that kill people in the winter. We saw it in the massive Texas freeze when Ted Cruz headed all not to Cancun. But no matter which way you slice it, no matter which program you are looking at, this bill will kill people.

But it's not just that it will kill people. Why will they kill people? Right? And when I say they, I mean the Republicans, why are they willing to let poor people die? Oh, because the rich people need a tax break. If it weren't for their attempts to try

To, to fund the tax breaks, maybe none of this would exist, although it probably still would because they seem to get off on the cruelty. Oh, but don't worry. The media tells us, right? The, the Republicans and the Senate are not happy about this bill and may maybe, maybe, maybe they'll save us, right? No, they're not gonna, don't think for a second folks, that those Republicans in the Senate are gonna, you know, come riding in on their white horse and save us from this cruel and deadly budget bill. It ain't gonna happen. We have seen this time and time again. Who are some of the people putting up, you know, a little bit of resistance right now? Well, you got Susan Collins. Oh, Lisa Murkowski. Oh yeah. God knows those two. Never waffle after publicly saying, I don't like a thing, but uh, I'll vote for the thing anyway. Sure, why not? That's what'll happen. If not most, maybe all of these Republicans putting up any kind of resistance to this bill whatsoever. When the chips are down, they'll fold. They always do. Don't think for a second they're gonna stop this deadly bill from becoming reality.