Update on Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill

On May 22, 2025, the House of Representatives passed President Trump’s bill that cut’s taxes for wealthy people at the expense of the most vulnerable groups, particularly the disabled and poor people.

The bill does not specifically say that legislators are cutting Medicaid funding. The House was indirect and much more devious, and it enacted work requirements and other onerous paperwork qualification obstacles for Medicaid recipients. Talk of attacking waste and fraud is an attempt to disguise what is really happening. Federal funding to the States is going to be reduced as well by changing funding formulas.

WORK REQUIREMENTS AND MORE PAPERWORK ARE SIMPLY MEDICAID CUTS IN DISGUISE.

Reputable analysts of the bill estimate that Medicaid will be cut by well over $700 Billion. SNAP which is the food lifeline for the poor and vulnerable, will be cut by $300 Billion. It has also been estimated that over 10 Million and as many and 14 Million people will lose health insurance as a result of this bill.

The policies in the bill enacted by the House will put the entire disabled community at risk, all to ensure that already wealthy people get to keep even more of their money. State programs and services for the disabled will be severely stressed. More people will go hungry.

The bill now moves to the Senate. Some of the Senators already recognize how unpopular these Medicaid cuts will be. If the recent past is any indication, however, Senators may cave to pressure from the administration and vote for the bill anyway. The majority in the Senate likes those tax cuts for the rich, and Senators fear the wrath of the President and want to keep their jobs at all costs. So, they may not act in the best interests of all of their constituents. The Disabled will be left behind.

ACT NOW. GET INVOLVED. WRITE TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. PROTECT THE DISABLED.

Autism Spending Reduced Under Trump and RFK, Jr.

Between January and April of 2025, research spending on autism at the National Institutes of Health was about $31 Million less than the comparable period last year according to a Reuters review of the federal data. That is a 26% drop in spending compared to the previous four-year average.

HHS Secretary Kennedy talks about wanting to find a cure for autism, but his priorities to do so are twisted. Secretary Kennedy has announced a $50 Million investment into the causes of autism. However much of that money will be spent for yet another study to find a connection between autism and vaccines. Every major past study, and there were several, has found no such connection. Secretary Kennedy is also turning away from the study of genetics as a cause of autism in favor of looking at environmental toxins as a potential cause. However well intentioned he might be, Secretary Kennedy is moving autism research away from scientific best practices and more toward his preconceived notions of why autism is so prevalent in our society today.

As a mother of an autistic child I was desperate and for years I tried every so-called treatment and potential magic bullet to try and improve my child’s functioning and life. I learned the hard way that there is no miracle cure out there just waiting to be discovered. The federal government should continue to fund real scientific autism research to advance our knowledge.