Disability News - July 6, 2025
An Absolute Moral Failure: Disability Advocates React to GOP Medicaid Cuts by Julia Métraux on July 3, 2025 at Mother Jones
"On Thursday, House Republicans voted to enact a spending bill that will strip close to one trillion dollars from federal Medicaid funding across a decade—an attack expected to cause tens of thousands of preventable deaths each year, disproportionately among the one in three disabled people on Medicaid in the US."
American Association of People with Disabilities Responds to Passage of Budget Reconciliation Bill by Jess Davidson on July 3, 2025 at the AAPD
“This is a devastating day for disabled Americans,” said AAPD President and CEO Maria Town. “The catastrophic effects of this bill will reverberate for generations to come. As a result of this bill, 51,000 Americans will die every single year from needless, preventable deaths.”
The Truth About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Cuts to Medicaid and Medicare by Mia Ives-Rublee and Kim Musheno on July 3, 2025 at the Center for American Progress
"In this column, the Center for American Progress and The Arc address the rhetoric surrounding the bill and unpack the devastating impacts that its deep cuts to Medicaid and Medicare, in particular, will have on people with disabilities."
10 Egregious Things You May Not Know About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by Colin Seeberger, Andrea Ducas and Natasha Murphy on July 3, 2025 at the Center for American Progress
"This article details several lesser-known provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) that will increase costs and limit Americans’ ability to meet their basic needs; create a slush fund for Trump administration overreach; and waste taxpayer money."
RFK Jr. Is Systematically Undermining Vaccine Science and Endangering Health by Steven Woolf and Jill Rosenthal on June 27, 2025 at the Center for American Progress
"When Secretary Kennedy first took office, medical experts and scientists were primarily concerned about his weak messaging on vaccines—notably, his failure to strongly endorse measles vaccination and his promotion of dubious cures in the midst of a major measles outbreak in Texas."
Social Security Administration sends misleading email lauding Trump's new tax cuts law by Scott Wong on July 4, 2025 at NBC News
“This email went to every Social Security subscriber and every word of it is a lie. Social Security benefits are still taxed. This big, ugly bill doesn’t change that,” New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone, the top Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, wrote on X. “It’s disturbing to see Trump hijack a public institution to push blatant misinformation.”