{"id":15187,"date":"2026-08-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=15187"},"modified":"2026-08-21T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:00:00","slug":"new-doj-guidance-could-give-states-cover-to-cut-disability-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=15187","title":{"rendered":"New DOJ Guidance Could Give States Cover To Cut Disability Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People with disabilities have long fought for the right to live at home rather than in institutions. Now, the Department of Justice says states <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/syndicate\/people-with-disabilities-fear-service-cuts-as-trumps-doj-questions-legal-protections\/\">don\u2019t have to help<\/a> make that happen.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by the Trump administration comes amid massive cuts in federal funding for Medicaid. Advocates worry this could be a one-two punch for disabled Americans who want to live independently.<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Stephanie Armour joined WAMU\u2019s <em>Health Hub<\/em> on Aug. 19 to explain what this change means for Americans with disabilities and their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\">KFF<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/medicaid\/wamu-health-hub-disability-services-funding-justice-department\/\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> first appeared on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">KFF Health News<\/a> and is republished here under a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with disabilities have long fought for the right to live at home rather than in institutions. Now, the Department of Justice says states don\u2019t have to help make that happen. The decision by the Trump administration comes amid massive cuts in federal funding for Medicaid. Advocates worry this could be a one-two punch for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}