{"id":945,"date":"2026-08-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peeksmarket.club\/?p=945"},"modified":"2026-08-25T11:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:56:12","slug":"new-doj-guidance-could-give-states-cover-to-cut-disability-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peeksmarket.club\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/new-doj-guidance-could-give-states-cover-to-cut-disability-services\/","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&#8217;t 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&#8217;s <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>\n<p><img id=\"republication-tracker-tool-source\" src=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=2276525&amp;ga4=G-J74WWTKFM0\" \/><\/p>\n","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&#8217;t 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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peeksmarket.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peeksmarket.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peeksmarket.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peeksmarket.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peeksmarket.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peeksmarket.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/peeksmarket.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peeksmarket.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peeksmarket.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peeksmarket.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peeksmarket.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}