Copies of President Donald Trump’s budget request for fiscal year 2020 are unpacked by staff in the House Budget Committee hearing room on Monday, March 11, 2019. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

President Trump’s recently-released budget proposes cuts to Medicaid and other programs that benefit people with disabilities. Though it maintains public school special education funding unchanged, it cuts spending on state developmental disabilities councils, disability research programs, independent living programs and Special Olympics education initiatives.