All the talk about whether Home-and-community-based services can be considered infrastructure obfuscates the real question I have been thinking: If this passes, would it be fair to say Biden would be the most consequential president on disability rights in the 21st Century?
-George W. Bush followed in his father's footsteps by signing the 2008 ADA Amendments Act
-Obama signing the ACA protected countless disabled people from discrimination in insurance and he negotiated the CRPD (which failed in Congress)
-Obama signing the ACA protected countless disabled people from discrimination in insurance and he negotiated the CRPD (which failed in Congress)
-Obama also nominated Sonia Sotomayor, who has supported disability rights from the bench and put out the community settings rule.
Trump didn't really do much. Of course, he liked to brag about low unemployment rates for people with disabilities, but @aneeman called bullshit.
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Trump also tried to repeal the ACA and pared down the community settings rule. But the only thing you could say about his administration was the FDA under Trump banned shock therapy. But how much you can attribute to him isn't entirely clear.
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