Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told a crowd of Iowa voters in a CNN town hall Wednesday night that the federal government has “lied systematically” to Americans. In the town hall at Grand View University in Des Moines, Ramaswamy turned a question about medication abortion into a critique of the federal bureaucracy. Ramaswamy takes on the ‘administrative state’Asked about the Supreme Court’s decision to take up a case on the abortion pill mifepristone, Ramaswamy used the opportunity to argue that federal agencies regularly exceed their authority. Ramaswamy and Phillip talk during the CNN town hall in Des Moines, Iowa, on December 13, 2023. He often evokes stories from the Bible, including one from the Book of Isaiah, as he did at Wednesday’s town hall.

Source: CNN December 14, 2023 15:28 UTC