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Right here’s what we’re watching in Washington:
President’s Funds Proposes Deep Cuts to Essential Applications Serving Older Adults
Final week, President Trump launched a finances proposal for fiscal 12 months (FY) 2026 that proposes deep cuts for important companies that permit older adults and folks with disabilities to stay safely at residence and of their communities.
General, the finances guts and eliminates packages that serve the well-being of individuals by $163 billion, a historic quantity, and successfully reduces funding for Social Safety by not maintaining with elevated prices. Learn extra in our full assertion.
In the meantime, this week, the Administration lastly launched FY25 funding for growing older and incapacity companies which had been appropriated by Congress – funding that was lengthy overdue. For FY26, packages that assist older adults age of their communities are on the chopping block.
We’re monitoring the scenario intently and can proceed to maintain advocates knowledgeable about how and when to take motion.
Home Planning to Markup Funds Payments with Medicaid and SNAP Cuts Subsequent Week
Republicans in Congress continued closed-door conferences this week to debate insurance policies to enact the large tax and spending cuts outlined of their finances decision. Experiences from these conferences point out they’ve but to achieve full settlement on both the kinds or ranges of cuts to Medicaid, the Supplemental Diet Help Program (SNAP), and different packages older adults depend on to fulfill their primary wants.
Regardless of the continued disagreements throughout the Republican caucus, the Home Vitality & Commerce Committee introduced it can maintain its listening to to markup the finances laws on Medicaid subsequent Tuesday, Might 13 at 2PM ET. Full textual content of the invoice will doubtless not be launched till the minimal of 24 hours earlier than the listening to.
Justice in Getting old can be submitting a press release to the committee for the listening to and sharing updates with our community. Nevertheless, no matter what Medicaid cuts are within the invoice, the result is similar: they’ll all take away well being and long-term care from older adults and folks with disabilities.
Now could be the time to name your members of Congress and remind them: no cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, or another primary wants packages are acceptable! Amplify the voices of hundreds of Medicaid advocates from the Defend Medicaid Vigil this week to ensure each lawmaker hears from their constituents.
CBO Report Confirms Chopping Medicaid Spending Means Chopping Well being Care
This week, Democratic management launched a report from the Congressional Funds Workplace that demonstrates why the varied Medicaid proposals Republicans are contemplating are the truth is cuts to well being care, as our Justice in Getting old truth sheet explains.
Whether or not it’s including work necessities, decreasing the quantity of funding states get for Medicaid enrollees or for the growth inhabitants, eliminating states’ means to make use of supplier taxes to fund Medicaid, or repealing laws that scale back obstacles for older adults and folks with disabilities to enroll in and keep Medicaid protection, the “financial savings” to the federal authorities from any of those proposals are totally attributable to kicking individuals off protection.
The report additionally explains how cuts to enrollment within the Medicare Financial savings Applications can even minimize Medicare spending as a result of fewer older adults will have the ability to afford to get medical care.
Invoice to Restore HUD Honest Housing Rule Launched in Congress
Consultant Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) not too long ago launched a invoice to revive the U.S. Division of Housing and City Improvement (HUD)’s 2021 Affirmatively Furthering Honest Housing Interim Remaining Rule (2021 AFFH IFR). This rule was rescinded earlier this 12 months by the Trump Administration. The invoice, titled the “Restoring Honest Housing Protections Eradicated by Trump Act of 2025,” is endorsed by Justice in Getting old.
The federal Honest Housing Act features a statutory mandate for HUD and its grantees to play an lively function in ending housing discrimination and segregation. HUD’s 2021 AFFH IFR inspired HUD grantees to conduct voluntary truthful housing planning to deal with disparities in housing entry and equal alternative.
Learn Justice in Getting old’s feedback on HUD’s termination of the 2021 AFFH IFR, and be taught extra in regards to the invoice aiming to reinstate the rule.
Congress In search of to Eradicate Immigrant Entry to Well being Care and Different Advantages
Among the many dangerous proposals into consideration for the finances reconciliation invoice are cuts to primary wants packages focused to immigrants. A brand new Defending Immigrant Households Reality Sheet supplies an outline of the proposals to limit immigrants’ entry to medical health insurance, together with by withholding Medicaid funding from states that cowl immigrants utilizing their very own state funds and making it tougher to enroll in Medicaid.
Proposals additionally embrace cuts to different advantages, equivalent to meals help. These restrictions would hurt older adults, each immigrants and residents alike, in addition to their households.
Study extra in our truth sheets on Threats to Older Immigrants in Well being Care, Financial Safety, Housing, and Elder Rights and Understanding Essential Connections Between Immigration and Older Adults.
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