Why does the Trump administration want to Force the Disabled into Institutions?

Profiting from Eugenics, Concentration Camps, then Labor Camps

Tim Langeman

Jul 11, 2026

The following video echos the dark history that led up to the Holocaust. Take this to heart!

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It is by Corey Turner and it starts off by saying, “The Justice Department released a memo that quietly calls into question decades of civil rights protections for Americans with disability and it has stirred fear and anger amongst advocates and families.”

This is put out by the Office of Legal Counsel and most people think that Stephen Miller is the one who is driving this. It argues that the states do not have to provide in home or community-based care to people with disabilities who need support. It is trying to put disabled people in institutions. That’s the goal. It’s trying to move disabled people out of public life and into for-profit institutions. According to Allison Bararkov, a health law and policy professor at George Washington University, this memo now indicates that it is the position of the US government that people with disabilities do not have a right to be part of their communities. I cannot overstate how significant this change in position is.

She said disabled Americans used to be hidden out of sight in institutions, subjected to pretty awful conditions in this country for a long time. And part of what overturned that was JFK going and visiting people who were institutionalized and seeing the conditions that they lived under.

Providing services that allow for disabled Americans to stay in their homes, in their communities, integrated into society is incredibly cost-effective. It is a good use of resources. It’s not just the moral and ethical thing to do. It is the cost-effective thing to do. Every dollar you spend on a disabled person providing necessary support where they are in their community, you would have to spend $3 providing those same services in an institution. But see, it’s not about being costeffective at all. It’s about eugenics. It’s about pushing disabled people out of sight, out of mind. And it’s also, as everything this regime does, it’s about the grift. Just like Core Civic and Geog Group, private corporations are getting billions of dollars of taxpayer money to run concentration camps full of immigrants, they want to take our taxpayer money that is currently going to community-based inhome services, and they want to funnel all of that money into corporations that will run institutions. It’s all about using people’s suffering, institutionalizing and imprisoning people in concentration camps or in these again like institutions does they’re going to turn into concentration camps. You understand? They will turn them into concentration camps. Taking our taxpayer money to do all of that. They want to warehouse disabled people just like they want to warehouse immigrants because denying people their liberty, trafficking inhuman beings essentially is a big big profitable venture for an awful lot of private corporations in Donald Trump’s America. You see, they’re trying to force this change. They’re trying to force eugenics on the American people, for-profit eugenics, by cutting Medicaid, $500 million, by cutting food stamps, by making the cost of living so high that families can no longer have a dedicated caregiver who is at home.

. Trans folks are at incredibly increased risk for political violence right now. And the regime is stoking it. The Supreme Court is stoking it by scapegoating trans kids in sports in particular. Of 510,000 athletes in the NCAA, only 10 of them are trans.

QUESTIONS:

Are you familiar with the history of eugenics, institutionalism, and concentration camps in Nazi Germany?
Where is the support for this policy coming from?
How much of a role does profiteering play in this?
Would the American public oppose these plans if they were widely understood

The danger moves slow, so be aware!

This is how rights usually go aware. Through quiet memos, withdrawn enforcement, and budget math that most people never read.

A state trims home-care hours, and the federal government decides not to step in.

A waiver waitlist gets longer.

A personal-care aide is cut.

A family is told there’s funding for a facility, but not for the support that would let their mother stay in her own home.

Medicare cuts incentivize institutionalization

First, the money. Last year’s reconciliation law, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, is estimated to cut federal Medicaid spending by $911 billion over a decade, roughly 14%. Medicaid covers nearly two-thirds of all home-care spending in the country, and over half of Medicaid spending finances care for people ages 65 and older and people with disabilities, the groups most likely to use home care. The last time the federal government cut Medicaid on this scale, states responded by serving fewer people and trimming benefits and provider pay. Facing these cuts, states will be under pressure to trim again, and this memo could give them legal and political cover to weaken community-based care.

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