US EditionRights Groups Face Funding Cuts
SHAWNEE COUNTY, KANSAS, JUL 31 – Trump's budget would cut over 60% of federal funding for disability rights centers despite rising demand and ongoing legal challenges related to Medicaid and abuse investigations, advocates say.
- On Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee will discuss President Donald Trump's proposal to zero out three grants and slash a fourth.
- Disability rights advocates doubt that state protection and advocacy groups would see any dollar not specifically earmarked for them, because Vought wrote, "We also considered, for each program, whether the governmental service provided could be provided better by State or local governments ."
- Sean Jackson said applicants struggled under Medicaid rules even before the recent changes, as demand is expected to rise after Republicans' tax law added a work-reporting requirement.
- Faced with deep cuts, Rocky Nichols warned, "We do need an independent system that can hold them and other wrongdoers accountable," and Catherine Johnson said, "That's maybe not something we could have done."
- This year marks the 50th anniversary of the federal law creating state protection and advocacy networks, and Trump's proposals threaten the largest cuts in that half-century, advocates say.
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Rights groups face funding cuts
Nancy Jensen believes she’d still be living in an abusive group home if it wasn’t shut down in 2004 with the help of the Disability Rights Center of Kansas, which for decades received federal money to look out for Americans…
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