NEW: Republicans' infrastructure proposal would leave 850,000 seniors and people with disabilities stranded on waitlists for home and community based care.

@POTUS's infrastructure plan would clear the waitlists, but Republicans claim it isn't "real infrastructure."
Home & Community Based Care allows people with disabilities to receive care in their own homes so they can live fuller, more independent lives outside of an institution.

Medicaid provides waivers based on need, but the average wait time is 5.5 years for people with disabilities.
Republicans want to cut the $400 billion in home care funding from Biden's American Jobs Plan.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), who Biden plans to meet with tomorrow, recently said, "The administration has got to come off of the fact that infrastructure is home health aides.
14-year-old Lila, in Virginia, has been on a waiting list for HCBS disability services since she was 5 years old. She has had to cut back on some therapies and supports due to cost.

"There's a waitlist and it doesn't really seem to be moving," her parents told us.
Home and Community Based Care can transform the lives of people with disabilities and their families.

"We are all human beings, right? So giving individuals the opportunity to live, the same type of life that we have is really what we're working towards."
The American Jobs Plan funding for Home and Community Based Care would also raise the wages of home health care workers.

Higher wages for home health aides would improve the quality of care for our loved ones and the quality of life for millions of essential workers.

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She grabbed a megaphone instead.

Now, the movement she’s led is on the verge of passing historic legislation to transform the fast food industry.
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