Stephanie Wolfe
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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Still, advocates felt the ADA was the floor, not the ceiling.
I went to Denver's Central Library branch to look through its archives on ADAPT's history and found documents showing that after the ADA passed, ADAPT members still found plenty to protest about and get arrested over.
It's why their slogan became Free Our People.
It's become the real undercurrent of what they advocate for, support for people to not get stuck in nursing homes.
But in the last year, disabled people say the Trump administration has put much of that progress and funding in jeopardy.
They point to cuts in Medicaid and new work requirements to even qualify for Medicaid.
Not just, oh, you know, some frivolous policy.
Nikki Bishop, the Denver area mother and licensed clinical social worker who has a disability and relies on nearly round-the-clock at-home care, is worried all of this independence she's worked so hard to build is at risk.
That's because if the federal government isn't acting as a watchdog, she's concerned states will start to chip away at programs that provide in-home support services in order to save money and balance budgets.
Those cutbacks are already starting to happen in Colorado.
In a tough budget year, the state legislature capped paid Medicaid hours for caregivers.
Bishop still has professional care coming to her home most days a week.
But her dad, Roy, has stepped in to fill the gaps.
Advocates I've spoken to, including Bishop, had hoped that by 2026 they'd be pushing for stronger and new protections versus affirming already existing ones.
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