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Register for our next (9-10:30 AM Friday, July 10th) federal funding webinar (English, Spanish)
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Resources from Last week's webinar
On June 26th we talked about:
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Policy changes the administration is making:
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U.S. DOJ opinion argues people with disabilities don’t have a right to home care,
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Special Education moving to DHHS/U.S. DOJ,
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U.S. DOJ & states highlighting Medicaid fraud enforcement,
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Supreme Court rulings impact voting, home care labor market;
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USPS, OMB, CMS rules impacting people with disabilities.
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Continued coverage of impacts of HR 1.
- Wisconsin has Medicaid shortfall;
- Report calculates economic impact of HR1 on jobs/states;
- HR 1 creates incentives for states to err on side of not providing SNAP benefits
- Congress
- House committee grills states on Medicaid fraud;
- House stalls on Reconciliation 3.0;
- annual federal appropriation process stalled out
Links to articles included in the presentation
- Tools you can use
- Congress
- See June 26th slides
- Federal administrative changes
- Trump Administration Claims People With Disabilities Don’t Have Right to Home Care
- DOJ Memo: Application of the Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disabilities Act to State Institutionalization of Patients with Severe Mental Illness or Disabilities
- Articles on U.S. DOJ opinion (NPR, PBS, Disability Scoop, StatNews)
- Wisconsin disability group statements (BPDD, Survival Coalition)
- Disability Groups Fear RFK Jr.’s New Special Education Role (Cap. Times Editorial)
- DOJ announces $6.5B healthcare fraud takedown with record Medicaid enforcement
- States are choosing to highlight new Medicaid fraud charges amid national fraud crackdown
- Supreme Court ruling allows administration to revoke Temporary Protected Status from Haitians (The Bullwark, NYT)
- Supreme Court allows a ruling that ends a tool to protect minority voters in 7 states
- U.S. Postal Service proposed rule would insert federal oversight into state mail in voting (News from the States, Democracy Docket)
- White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval on all federal grants
- Summary from the National Council for Nonprofits;
- Summary from Lawyers for Good Government (LFGG)
- Points to raise in public comments
- Read the rule
- Medicaid prove you’re working or prove you’re exempt requirements
- Read the CMS Community Engagement rule: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/03/2026-11094/medicaid-program-community-engagement-requirement-for-certain-individuals
- BPDD analysis on who fits–and doesn’t fit–into exemptions (listen, slides)
- BPDD analysis of community engagement requirements (listen, slides).
- NHELP analysis of rule
- Wisconsin DHS webinar on Community Engagement Rule
- Yet Another Administrative Burden for Doctors: Medicaid Work Requirements
- Continued coverage of impact of HR 1
- Report calculates economic consequences of Medicaid, SNAP cuts, ACA subsidy expiration (Commonwealth Fund, Ohio Capitol Journal)
- Medicaid and ACA enrollment falls by more than 5 million, new report finds (Report, NBC)
- Trump’s hunger crisis (Bullwark, Politico)
- Only nine states won’t have pay more for federal SNAP benefits (News From the States, AP)
- Florida: Largest Medicaid pediatric provider sues DeSantis administration over pay rates (news from the states, WUSF)
- Doctors’ challenge to TN plan to report disabled immigrant kids