{"id":26581,"date":"2025-04-24T14:33:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26581"},"modified":"2025-04-24T15:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:23:16","slug":"trump-cuts-threaten-meals-and-services-for-people-with-disabilities-and-the-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26581","title":{"rendered":"Trump Cuts Threaten Meals and Services for People With Disabilities and the Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A tiny agency responsible for overseeing these services is being dismantled as part of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s overhaul of his department.<\/p>\n

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Every Monday, Maurine Gentis, a retired teacher, waits for a delivery from Meals on Wheels South Texas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe meals help stretch my budget,\u201d Ms. Gentis, 77, said. Living alone and in a wheelchair, she appreciates having someone look in on her regularly. The same group, a nonprofit, delivers books from the library and dry food for her cat.<\/p>\n

But Ms. Gentis is anxious about what lies ahead. The small government agency responsible for overseeing programs like Meals on Wheels is being dismantled as part of the Trump administration\u2019s overhaul<\/a> of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Roughly half its staff has been let go in recent layoffs and all of its 10 regional offices are closed, according to several employees who lost their jobs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just kind of worried that the whole thing might go down the drain, too,\u201d Ms. Gentis said.<\/p>\n

In President Trump \u2019s quest to end what he termed \u201cillegal and immoral discrimination programs,\u201d one of his executive orders<\/a> promoted cracking down on federal efforts to improve accessibility and representation for those with disabilities, with agencies flagging words<\/a> like \u201caccessible\u201d and \u201cdisability\u201d as potentially problematic. Certain research studies are no longer being funded<\/a>, and many government health employees specializing in disability issues have been fired.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The downsizing of the agency, the Administration for Community Living, is part of far-reaching cuts<\/a> planned at the H.H.S. under the Trump administration\u2019s proposed budget.<\/p>\n

While some federal funding may continue through September, the end of the government\u2019s fiscal year, and some workers have been called back temporarily, there is significant uncertainty about the future. And some groups are reporting delays in receiving expected federal funds.<\/p>\n

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A tiny agency responsible for overseeing these services is being dismantled as part of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s overhaul of his department.Every Monday, Maurine Gentis, a retired teacher, waits for a delivery from Meals on Wheels South Texas.\u201cThe meals help stretch my budget,\u201d Ms. Gentis, 77, said. Living alone and in a wheelchair, she appreciates having someone look in on her regularly. The same group, a nonprofit, delivers books from the library and dry food for her cat.But Ms. Gentis is anxious about what lies ahead. The small government agency responsible for overseeing programs like Meals on Wheels is being dismantled as part of the Trump administration\u2019s overhaul of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Roughly half its staff has been let go in recent layoffs and all of its 10 regional offices are closed, according to several employees who lost their jobs.\u201cI\u2019m just kind of worried that the whole thing might go down the drain, too,\u201d Ms. Gentis said.In President Trump \u2019s quest to end what he termed \u201cillegal and immoral discrimination programs,\u201d one of his executive orders promoted cracking down on federal efforts to improve accessibility and representation for those with disabilities, with agencies flagging words like \u201caccessible\u201d and \u201cdisability\u201d as potentially problematic. Certain research studies are no longer being funded, and many government health employees specializing in disability issues have been fired.The downsizing of the agency, the Administration for Community Living, is part of far-reaching cuts planned at the H.H.S. under the Trump administration\u2019s proposed budget.While some federal funding may continue through September, the end of the government\u2019s fiscal year, and some workers have been called back temporarily, there is significant uncertainty about the future. And some groups are reporting delays in receiving expected federal funds.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26583,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26584,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26581\/revisions\/26584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}