NACDD recently signed onto two letters (Coalition for Human Needs; Clean Budget Coalition) calling for a clean budget and a continuing resolution (CR) that focuses on urgent, domestic spending. Domestic programs have a large impact on the disability community and cuts to these programs will disproportionally affect individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Making federal cuts or not providing timely, emergency funding in a CR for education and job training programs, medical care, aging and disability services, housing and child care, among others, will negatively affect states’ abilities to ensure accessibility to essential services for people with disabilities. Federally-backed services and supports are crucial to the wellbeing of the disability population in the United States and support individuals with disabilities to live and work in their communities.
