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02-23-2025, 10:35 AM
Trump resents having paid money to accommodate the disabled, so much the worse for disabled people going forward
Disability rights advocates warn that Trump’s anti-diversity executive orders are just a prelude to even more draconian attacks. For example, Trump’s avowed goal to eliminate the Department of Education could jeopardize (https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-the-assault-on-public-education-means-for-kids-with-disabilities) special-education programs for roughly 7.5 million students—15 percent of the US student population. Trump’s plan to cut billions in grants issued by the National Institutes of Health threatens (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-possible-long-term-impact-of-trumps-cuts-to-medical-research-funding) long-term research and development focused on life-saving—and life-improving—treatments for millions of Americans. And, of course, any cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and particularly (https://newrepublic.com/post/191476/house-republicans-budget-medicaid-snap-food-stamps) Medicaid—and let’s face it, the GOP wants to eliminate or privatize these programs altogether—will disproportionately affect millions of disabled people who rely on the programs to survive.
“It would be catastrophic,” Rembis said of potential cuts to Medicaid. “For many people, Medicaid is literally their lifeline. It’s what sustains them. People who depend on these services to live wouldn’t have the medical equipment, the prescriptions, the healthcare, or the daily supports they need if these programs were limited, let alone cut. Thousands of people would die.”https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-dei-target-access-disabilities/
Disability rights advocates warn that Trump’s anti-diversity executive orders are just a prelude to even more draconian attacks. For example, Trump’s avowed goal to eliminate the Department of Education could jeopardize (https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-the-assault-on-public-education-means-for-kids-with-disabilities) special-education programs for roughly 7.5 million students—15 percent of the US student population. Trump’s plan to cut billions in grants issued by the National Institutes of Health threatens (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-possible-long-term-impact-of-trumps-cuts-to-medical-research-funding) long-term research and development focused on life-saving—and life-improving—treatments for millions of Americans. And, of course, any cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and particularly (https://newrepublic.com/post/191476/house-republicans-budget-medicaid-snap-food-stamps) Medicaid—and let’s face it, the GOP wants to eliminate or privatize these programs altogether—will disproportionately affect millions of disabled people who rely on the programs to survive.
“It would be catastrophic,” Rembis said of potential cuts to Medicaid. “For many people, Medicaid is literally their lifeline. It’s what sustains them. People who depend on these services to live wouldn’t have the medical equipment, the prescriptions, the healthcare, or the daily supports they need if these programs were limited, let alone cut. Thousands of people would die.”https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-dei-target-access-disabilities/