Recent outcry over a proposal to end federal funding for Special Olympics is helping put the spotlight on other potentially devastating cuts to programs for people with disabilities, advocates say.
Last week, President Donald Trump said he would rescind a $17.6 million cut to Special Olympics from his proposed budget to Congress. But his $4.75 trillion spending plan still calls for cuts to Medicaid and eliminating current funding for autism training and research as well as employment support for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
“It’s a threat to people’s health insurance and also the community supports that they depend on,” Julie Ward, deputy executive officer for public policy at The Arc, said of the proposed budget. “It’s alarming for us to see the zeroing out of programs we care about or cuts to programs that are important to the developmental disability community.”
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