How people with disabilities could bear the burden of Medicaid funding cuts
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump's massive tax and funding bill, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill, was passed into law last summer. |
| 0:06.9 | And according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, it will slash more than a trillion dollars in federal spending from Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program by 2034. |
| 0:18.0 | Senior correspondent Judy Woodruff examines what those cuts could mean for home and |
| 0:23.1 | community care providers who serve adults with special needs. It's part of her ongoing series, |
| 0:28.5 | Disability Reframed. |
| 0:30.3 | Franny. |
| 0:31.5 | Siddiqui Kamara's mornings are often filled with fist bumps and high fives. |
| 0:38.3 | So what's the plan for today? |
| 0:39.3 | He's the president of Bright Center, a day program for special needs adults in Manassas, |
| 0:45.3 | Virginia. |
| 0:46.3 | So this is our main century. |
| 0:47.3 | This is where, you know, we do a lot of our activities. |
| 0:50.3 | Five days a week, the center provides education and a host of activities for participants |
| 0:56.2 | like exercise class, arts and crafts, and meditation. |
| 1:02.7 | In 2014, Kamara started the center with his wife Naomi, who was born with sickle cell |
| 1:08.6 | anemia. |
| 1:09.6 | At the time, she told him she'd always dreamed of creating a center like this. |
| 1:14.8 | So when she came to me with that idea, at first I was like, why do you want to do that? |
| 1:20.0 | But then, you know, after her explaining that to me, it's her passion. |
| 1:23.6 | She wants to help. |
| 1:24.4 | She wants to get back to the community. |
| 1:25.7 | She wants to make a difference. |
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