Trump Is Cutting Disability Benefits for 400,000 Americans to Fund an Illegal War

ProPublic has reported that the Trump administration is moving to cut SSI disability benefits for 400,000 Americans with Down syndrome, autism, dementia, severe mental illness, and other disabilities who live at home with families that receive SNAP benefits. The proposed rule would count a disabled adult’s bedroom as income and cut their monthly benefit by $300 to $330, or eliminate it entirely. The annual savings: $2 billion a year, according to conservative think tanks. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities notes the entire annual savings wouldn’t cover a single day of the cost of the tax cuts for the wealthy Republicans just passed. The Iran war has cost $25 billion in 8 weeks. Trump’s Pentagon is asking for $1.5 trillion in defense spending next year. Trump promised not to cut Social Security. SSI is administered by the Social Security Administration. The White House says the disability programs are technically separate from retirement benefits. The kind of distinction only Ebenezer Scrooge would make. Or in this case, Russell Vought. Cutting Shy’tyra Burton’s benefit saves $11 a day. If it forces her father to place her in a residential facility, the cost to taxpayers jumps to hundreds of dollars a day. Huge shoutout to ProPublica for their reporting. Read the story Here. Get full access to The Rogue Voice aka Linsay Rousseau at linsayrousseau.substack.com/subscribe