Call your congress people

Everyone who knows a child or adult with autism receiving services through Medicaid needs to call their congress people RIGHT now. Like right now, I just did. If your family member gets “waiver” services that means Medicaid.

The Trump halt on federal grants may halt Medicaid funding (Medicare is explicitly not included in the halt, but Medicaid is not mentioned). There is an exception for “assistance received directly by individuals” but many of our kids get services through contracted providers.

Especially call if your representatives/senators are Republican. You can find who yours are at

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

UPDATE: still call/write please :) but it looks like they don’t intend to pause Medicaid funding as of right now, sorry about the x link

https://x.com/victoriaregisk/status/1884313625428648279

https://x.com/victoriaregisk/status/1884313625428648279/photo/2

As an aside, this confused communication is not helped by the Medicaid portals being down in all 50 states. Supposedly they will be up soon.