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Register for our next (9-10:30 AM Friday, February 27th) federal funding webinar (English, Spanish)
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Resources from Last week's webinar
On February 13th we talked about:
- Counting down to the end of the state legislative session. What’s moving, stalling, and being discussed.
- Congress focused on impending shutdown of Dept of Homeland Security; House passes bill that would change what people need to do to be able to vote, changes to IDEA being considered. The ACA subsidies extension are no longer being discussed even as impacts of ACA subsidy expiration are starting to become clearer.
- Policy changes the administration is making: agencies rescinding funding for certain states, how insurers are making coverage harder to use for people with pre-existing conditions, new appointments on autism panel, administrative rule changes target fair housing laws and ACA exchanges, claims of fraud being used as reason to cut programs, and more.
- Continued coverage of impacts of HR 1.
Links to articles included in the presentation
- Wisconsin State Legislature
- See February 6th slides for links to bills, legislative documents, and action steps.
- Congress
- Elections overhaul takes center stage in House
- Bill would impose nationwide proof of citizenship, photo ID requirements
- House GOP pushes strict proof-of-citizenship requirement for voters
- State election officials brace for possible Trump interference in midterm results
- Trump’s calls to ‘nationalize’ elections have state, local election officials bracing for tumult
- Altering IDEA Poses ‘Substantial Risk’ To Students With Disabilities, Advocates Warn
- Consortium of Citizens with Disabilities letter to Senate HELP committee
- Fate of ACA subsidies, fallout from failure to extend them
- Federal administrative changes
- CMS planning to change coverage, oversight rule for ACA exchanges in 2027
- RFK Jr.’s Picks for a Key Autism Panel Include people who promote dangerous treatments
- With ICE Using Medicaid Data, Hospitals and States worry about immigrant patients
- Trump administration directs rescission of $1.5B from blue states on health, transportation
- Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States
- Democratic-led states sue to stop Trump from withholding $600M in health grants
- Spector of fraud being used to make case for immigration enforcement, cuts to programs
- 90% of student discrimination and harassment complaints were dismissed last year. Here’s why.
- Administration wants to change Fair Housing law rules
- Trump admin moves to finalize return of Schedule F
- Trump Strips Job Protections From Thousands of Federal Workers
- Stat: NIH Grant Reviewers Fear Schedule F Status Will Politicize Their Jobs
- Trump administration scaling back plans for field test of the 2030 census
- Continued coverage of impact of Reconciliation bill
- Hours Of Tearful Testimony Result In Pause To Some Medicaid Cuts For Coloradans With Disabilities
- Missouri families worry proposed $80.7M cut will hobble disability care programs
- Fewer immigrant caregivers linked to more deaths of older adults and people with disabilities
- The Effect of Immigration on Older Adult Mortality in the United States
- Why Trump’s Attack on Refugees Could Hurt Grandma (and people with disabilities)
- New Medicaid Work Rules Likely To Hit Middle-Aged Adults Hard
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