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Trump further guts Education Dept. by shifting oversight of special ed, civil rights

Broad Coalition of Disability, Civil Rights, and Education Organizations Denounces ED’s Latest Transfers of Core Functions 

 
Washington, D.C. — The undersigned disability, civil rights, and education organizations strongly oppose the Administration’s efforts to transfer the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to the Department of Justice (DOJ) through Interagency Agreements (IAAs). These agreements undermine the core foundation of federal disability, education, and civil rights policy and implementation. 

https://autismsociety.org/broad-coalition-of-disability-civil-rights-and-education-organizations-denounces-eds-latest-transfers-of-core-functions/
 

DOJ Opinion on Olmstead Threatens the Right of People With Disabilities to Live in the Community

THE NATIONAL ARC
https://thearc.org/blog/doj-opinion-on-olmstead-threatens-the-right-of-people-with-disabilities-to-live-in-the-community/

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
https://www.aapd.com/aapd-horrified-by-doj-olmstead-memo/

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-statement-on-doj-memo-threatening-the-right-to-community-living-for-people-with-disabilities
 

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The Boost Q&A: Kim Musheno, Senior Director of Medicaid Policy at The Arc of the United States

June 11, 2026
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We’re coming up on a full year since H.R. 1 (President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill Act”) was signed into law on July 4, 2025. Included in the bill was nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, a program jointly funded by states and the federal government. The bill also conditioned Medicaid eligibility for some adults in the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion group (and the two states in partial expansion waiver programs) on meeting work, or community engagement, requirements starting Jan. 1, 2027.

Then, on June 1 of this year, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare released an Interim Final Rule (IFR) that will guide implementation of those requirements and its “medically frail” exemptions. The rule adopts a far more restrictive, and still to be untangled, definition of medical frailty than states had been expecting. (KFF’s CMS Requires More Restrictive Definition of Medical Frailty in New Medicaid Work Requirements Rule is a good primer on the changes.)

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