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Republicans Slide “Nonprofit Killer” Law Into Tax Bill

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The “nonprofit killer” is back—this time tucked into congressional Republicans’ aggressive new tax proposal, which they’ve dubbed the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill.” For those who forgot: In November, the House of Representatives passed HR 9495, or the “Stop Terror Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act,” which would give the Secretary of the Treasury […]

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The Case That Could Gut Disabled People’s Right to Equal Health Care

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For decades, American hospitals have been subject to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and to the Americans with Disabilities Act, landmark federal disability civil rights laws that guarantee equal access to health care. But Hickson v. St. David’s Healthcare Partnership, a case before the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, could upend those protections—giving […]

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Disability Protection Groups in Two States Pause Services After Missing Federal Funds

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State organizations that advocate for disabled residents in New Jersey and Arkansas announced this week that they will have to limit their work due to not receiving the full federal funds they are owed by the US federal government. Each state, territory, and Washington, DC, has a protection and advocacy agency to support the rights […]

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HHS Plans to Cut Funds Used to Investigate Abuse at Group Homes

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On Wednesday, a leaked draft Health and Human Services budget document revealed, among other sweeping cuts to health- and disability-related services, that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department plans to defund protection and advocacy services for people with developmental disabilities—including autistic people, about whom Kennedy also spreads harmful disinformation. The budget document is a proposal, […]

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RFK Jr. Knows Amazingly Little About Autism

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While his anti-vaccine allies swooned and scientists cringed, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used his first-ever press conference this week, in response to new data showing an apparent increase in the number of autistic kids, to promote a variety of debunked, half-true, and deeply ableist ideas about autism. He painted the condition as a […]

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Tariffs Are About to Hit Lifesaving Medical Equipment

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For millions of disabled people, essential health devices known as durable medical equipment, or DME—think of CPAP machines or in-home dialysis equipment—help them both remain at home and stay alive. Donald Trump’s recent wave of tariffs, extremely broad in both the imports and countries they target, are still at a new 10 percent baseline in […]

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Tariffs Are About to Hit Lifesaving Medical Equipment

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For millions of disabled people, essential health devices known as durable medical equipment, or DME—think of CPAP machines or in-home dialysis equipment—help them both remain at home and stay alive. Donald Trump’s recent wave of tariffs, extremely broad in both the imports and countries they target, are still at a new 10 percent baseline in […]

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How to Call Congress—When the Phone Isn’t an Option

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As someone who is deaf, Sara Nović says, “the phone has long been my nemesis.”  Nović, an organizer and author of the novel True Biz, has tried to call their representatives in Congress by phone—but they’ve been hung up on. When they started organizing earlier this year with fellow deaf people on issues like Donald […]

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In First Post-Presidency Speech, Biden Calls to Treat Disabled People With Dignity

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On Tuesday, former President Joe Biden gave his first speech following the end of his presidency in January, at the Chicago national conference of Advocates, Counselors, and Representatives for the Disabled. “Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity,” Biden said in a speech that ran just under 30 minutes. “That means making sure that more […]

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For Some Disabled Protestors, “Hands Off” Went Virtual

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At a Hands Off rally for people with Long Covid, Amanda Finley was filled with emotions. She talked about how devastated she was to lose people who had suffered from the condition and died due to a lack of support, and talked about how she, an Internal Revenue Service employee, had just gotten Reduction in […]

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