We must fight to include people with disabilities
Americans are increasingly aware of the harm that President Donald Trump are doing. We see that:
• Cuts to SNAP, the ACA and Medicaid are raising healthcare and food costs for struggling people, and making care harder to get — many will go hungry, and many more will be sicker and even die.
• Tens of millions of women no longer have reproductive freedom common throughout the modern world.
• Tariffs are raising prices, hurting small business and farmers, and are a gambit to shift the tax burden from wealthy people to working people.
• Pro-oil and pro-AI policies are making day to day energy/utility costs rise, and are slowing down the existential transition to cheaper, renewable energy sources.
• Undermining vaccines will do incredible harm to individual people and families and our society as a whole.
• Mass deportation and the terror regime that Miller and DHS have unleashed on tens of millions of people living and working here across the U.S.
But now a new harm is on the horizon. His regime has announced their intent to force disabled people into institutions. The Department of Justice recently published a memo authorizing states to institutionalize more people with disabilities. So more people will be pushed out of society and into nursing homes, psychiatric hospitals, segregated schools, and sheltered workshops, rather than funding community- or home-based care where they have more autonomy.
We must prepare to fight for the continued belonging and inclusion of people with disabilities in our communities