Final week, President Trump launched a finances proposal for fiscal yr 2026 that proposes deep cuts for important companies that enable older adults and folks with disabilities to stay safely at dwelling and of their communities. General, the finances guts and eliminates applications that serve the well-being of individuals by $163 billion, a historic quantity, whereas rising navy spending and shifting extra prices to states.
The proposed cuts embrace practically $27 billion in cuts to federal rental help, the elimination of the Low-Revenue Residence Power Help Program (LIHEAP), which helps low-income households warmth and funky their properties, and drastic cuts to CDC and NIH. The blueprint would remove and lower applications to handle housing discrimination, fight violence in opposition to girls, assist refugees, promote well being fairness, and defend civil rights, which can hurt older adults and their households in all communities.
The finances successfully reduces funding for Social Safety by not maintaining with elevated prices and does nothing to reverse the numerous employees cuts on the Social Safety Administration, that are harming the thousands and thousands of older adults and folks with disabilities who rely upon Social Safety for his or her primary wants.
Whereas this “skinny finances” is barely a proposal, we see the writing on the wall. Getting old companies solely simply acquired funding for this fiscal yr (FY 2025), and applications that help older adults to age of their communities are on the chopping block for 2026. The FY 26 skinny finances proposal, when thought-about in tandem with the Republican proposals to slash $880 billion from Medicaid, demonstrates a merciless sample of taking primary wants companies and applications away from older adults and folks with disabilities.
