Sen. Tammy Baldwin criticized the Trump administration for allowing funding supporting paralyzed Americans to expire. The funding for the National Paralysis Resource Center expired, reducing services for more than five million Americans living with paralysis and their families.
The grant ended on June 30 after the administration delayed the funding notice for months, and new funding is not expected until September 1, leaving a significant gap in services.
Baldwin said the administration is politicizing federal grants and cutting disability programs while firing staff at the Administration for Community Living and delaying other HHS funding as well.
The NPRC, created with bipartisan support in 2001, provides free resources, care coordination, peer mentoring, and specialized support that states and local systems cannot reliably offer.
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