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The Justice Department has issued a new legal opinion stating that federal disability law does not require states to provide community-based services simply because a person with a disability could live outside an institution.

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The opinion rejects a long-standing interpretation of the Americans with Disabilities Act that has been used for decades to support home- and community-based care for people with mental, physical, and intellectual disabilities.

Follow. The. Money. Anybody that's paid any attention to the private prison industry can plainly see the potential parallels with the institutional care industry. Sorry, we don't have any funds to reimburse you for home care, but we'll gladly institutionalize your loved one at taxpayer expense.

Heritage foundation through Reagan closed down state run institutions and threw people into the streets. Over decades, new support was sucessfully built. Now they want to to privatize that through Trump.

The last thing a child of an elderly parent wants is to have them living among mentally disabled individuals. It would be more dangerous if that person was younger and much stronger. Plus, the elderly parent may get less than the standard of care because the mentally disabled needed more care.

To trump & the Project 2025 ghouls people with any disability are expendable. Money spent on them for any reason is a waste. They simply don’t value life. Trump isn’t Christian but Russell Vought & Mike Johnson types who claim to be Christian are political power seeking/hoarding christofascists.

I just read through this garbage. To this lay-person this is tailored to Thomas’ dissent. It is designed to be egregious enough to trigger lawsuits to get it back to SCOTUS to be re-litigated. It is the destruction on the ADA just like what was done with the VRA. They are monsters.

What about the folks who are under the wrong impression they are capable of leading independent lives when they are not? Sometimes, institutions are a better solution. Certainly a better solution than living on the street. Each situation must be looked at on a case by case basis.

"... make it easier for states to rely on nursing homes, psychiatric facilities, and other institutional settings ..." which have all been privatized, are affiliated w/ insurance companies, and will do nothing but decimate savings & funds of the families with loved ones requiring the services

Money,and hate. Waiting list of in patient care for several disabled people are under funded as is. The demand for care is not being meet as is....this will end horrific for the most vulnerable. I hate it here.

The WWII NAZIs made up many supposed handicaps & did radical & dangerous medical experiments on humans that resulted in many slow painful deaths. Is this happening in ICE detainment? Why won't they let anyone see? What are they hiding? MAGA is NAZI. No NAZI is a good NAZI No MAGA is a good MAGA

I work for a county board of developmental disabilities in Ohio. Every single employee is terrified not just for our futures-we could all make more money in the private sector but that isn't why we are here. We are terrified for the futures of the individuals we serve. Terrified.

Explain this to me like I'm a child please, my brain is not understanding. Please help me understand and thank you for taking your time, I truly appreciate your help

Holy Mother Of God...what made these people so evil😱...they are devoid of anything that is good...how does this happen???? I don't think this happens to poor folk, mostly to the rich and others, for example ICE agents.

The rich will never need community services/outside help because they can afford to pay. They play on RW tropes - they're rich because they *deserve* to be, so people without money must deserve *that*, so taking away food stamps, disability support etc is an incentive to *just try harder*. Immoral.

Allowing disabled people to live in the community is the very definition behind all Medicaid waiver programs. Trump wants institutionalizing instead. Landmark Legal Precedents: * Olmstead v. L.C. (1999) * Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) * Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act

People tend to forget this regime wants to get rid of all DEIA, not just DEI! The “A” is for accessibility. They already kicked people off the disability “back to work” program due to supposed administrative costs. (I was one of these people) What is next for some of our most vulnerable citizens?

This sounds like a family could only get services if they agree to put their disabled kid in a facility. The ind of place where everyone with disabilities is gathered together. I think those are called concentration camps.

They are trying to take us back to the old days when racial discrimination was everywhere and disable people were locked away out of sight or left without resources to suffer with families unable to provide the tools, equipment, and education that would enable them to be independent. It's CRUEL.

The age of most of this administration this was "normal" in their community. RFK jr grandparents lobotomized their daughter because she was neurodivergent. They have made the comment several times we never had ADHD or Autism in our communities that is because they were institutionalized.

Where they usually died shortly after or lived a horrible life. Children with Down syndrome and other genetic disabilities were left to die by a cold window shortly after birth or worse. Parents were not even allowed to see them. If they survived they too were placed saying parents could not handle

them. This scenario started in the 1960's and has continued ever since. Children/Adults with disabilities is underfunded and has been for decades. Both sides of controlled Congress has never addressed this issue adequately. We deserve better!

Anyone who has a loved one with mental health issues knows that there are not adequate facilities for the people affected. These were dismantled under Reagan and replaced by too few group homes.

I work for a non profit that provides home based community care for elders. The people under 60 who need home based community services due to disability is a huge need that is under funded as it is, now the SCOTUS is giving a green light to states to rip help away. Tell me again how GOP is pro-life!

The fascists want everyone institutionalized or locked up out of view. They want to isolate and insulate themselves from anyone that makes them feel uncomfortable or unsafe in any way.

I think it’s more extreme than that. I think they want to systematically eliminate *everyone* who does not serve a purpose for them specifically. If a person can’t work in their factories, give them money, birth their spawn, or *control* the people who serve them, they want them/us gone.

Five of those include strategies that make it easier for families to have children and raise children. "Have more babies" is their mantra, but we're going to keep making it harder to do.

So I guess the upper class disabled citizens with $$$$ will get a pass. There are upper class disabled citizens. They will be fine. The rest of us, not so much. None of us deserve this.

With this administration’s track record of removing inspectors in many other industries, institutions like this probably don’t have proper oversight. We all know what that will lead to, especially when their occupancy starts growing.

So let's remove all ramps/etc from the White House and make it so they need to hook trump up to a couple of 1 ton chain motor hoists and lower him out a window in plain view of cameras and tourists whenever he has to leave the White House.

Because my calcified cervical discs and I are only in it for the sweet, sweet sub-poverty level "income". Neither party has EVER done anything about that, by the way...

Sure, but this hardline stance is the reason my adult disabled son has no transportation to and from his day program, thus making me his driver and unable to manage the business I once ran. Consequences, folks, that are impacting people's ability to be productive and earn a good living.

It truly takes a village, and my son's life is rich with friends. It would be nice if the government would be as compassionate as these fine folks. A family shouldn't have to suffer to provide for one of their own.

Forgive my ignorance, but if he’s an adult, he’s disabled. I assume he’s on Medicaid? I thought Medicaid provided transportation for appointments? Is that something that’s changed?

A day program isn't considered an appointment, so these day progams need to provide their own transportation. Plus, my state legislators in NC have pushed through additional Medicaid cuts, saying they're cutting down on fraud, though they really just cut disabled folks services.

We all know Trump doesn't like seeing disabled people. He told his own nephew that he should let his son die and then move to Florida. He also wanted to cut the nephew's son from the family's insurance. Trump is a sociopath who has no empathy for anyone.

Someone should sue the justice department for making health determinations without a medical license. Home services keep people out of expensive institutions. People who receive mental health services may end up incarcerated without community services, which is more expensive. So taxpayers will pay.

Well jeez, I wonder if all the poor, disabled people living in red rural areas envisioned this before 11/5/2024? Maybe this will help them better understand moving forward or perhaps not. The GOP is not your friend and they are not better on the economy. They never have been either of those.

I’m friggin believable. My family has kept our 70 year old sister in our homes due to the violence that occurs against the disabled in institutions but it’s coming. Trump believes his own nephews son should just be dead! Why use $$ on the disabled when the rich could use that $$

I have a severely multiply-impaired son. Since my husband died, I have a PCA to help with his care. He goes to a day program 4 days/week, which he loves. Oh, and he also loves teddy bears and pumpkin pie and Peppa the Pig and Tom Petty. The people are monsters. Just follow the money.

My neighbor who has run a daycare facility for adult quadriplegics just had to close this month after 25 years due to changes in funding. Ironically many of the parents are MAGA and blame her not DeSantis or Trump. Their children will suffer.

I teach adults in an 18-22 transition program...it's stunning how many of their parents are MAGA. I let it slip out to one of my student's who was talking about something pro Trumpy that they can say good bye to their free hearing aides and batteries...

It's as if they are trying to dismantle the America that works for everyone in favor of an oligarchs-only utopia. In the EU, there is no ADA. Lots of stairs everywhere make travel difficult for parents with prams, elders with balance problems, and anyone who requires wheels.

My son wouldn’t be speaking without disability services. Every kid & parent deserve this chance. I’ve fought the State and it’s a long road. We won in-school services & special needs bussing. We won having him mainstreamed. I’m determined to fight this. Call your local & state reps

Now, this is how we change our world for the better. This here will encourage grass roots efforts to elect locally known quantities who want to make the world better for ALL. Yes, it won’t happen overnight, but it will happen. How do you all think the crazy MAGAts got started? Local to global

These moves are worrisome. Project 2025 is about centralizing ALL functions into a unitary Exec. authority. That's what triggered my concern. It seems a vast overreach to change practices based on in-house Legal Counsel of the Ex. Branch. I think courts will NOT agree that's the law's meaning

So are Christians. But Republicans have rewritten the scriptures. I looked at some of the "commentary" -- there's lots of it nowadays, not just Strong's -- and you can easily find what amounts to Bible Interpretation For Fascists. Don't believe everything you read.

I warned everyone clear back before he got elected that P2025 called for disabled/ill Americans be “institutionalized” into concentration camps. The Nazis came for the disabled/ill before they ever came for anyone else. Why do you think they’re planning for crematoriums inside them?!!