President’s Budget Proposal Turns Its Back on Americans Living with Paralysis and Other Disabilities
Paralysis changes lives in an instant. A car crash, a stroke, a tackle on the football field — and suddenly, everything is different. In those first terrifying days and throughout the long road ahead, thousands of Americans have turned to one place: the National Paralysis Resource Center (NPRC). Now, that lifeline is at risk of being cut.
The President’s budget proposal released on May 30 calls for the complete elimination of the National Paralysis Resource Center, along with other vital programs serving people living with disabilities. If Congress adopts this proposal, it will dismantle the only national resource dedicated entirely to supporting people living with paralysis.
For more than 20 years, the National Paralysis Resource Center has helped individuals and families find their footing after injury or diagnosis. From emergency rehab placement to housing adaptations, from peer mentoring to suicide prevention, it delivers life-changing and often lifesaving support to a growing community that includes people living with spinal cord injury (SCI), stroke survivors, and people living with ALS, MS, and many other conditions.
This program saves lives. And it is cost-effective. That’s why it’s earned bipartisan support year after year. Ending it now would not only halt decades of progress, it would put lives at risk.
Read the Full Statement
On Friday, May 30, the President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Proposal was released and calls for the complete elimination of the Paralysis Resource Center (PRC), along with other cuts to vital programs serving people living with disabilities. While this news is deeply disconcerting, the President’s budget is only a recommendation. Ultimately, Congress holds the power to decide final funding levels each fiscal year.
If Congress were to adopt this proposal, it would cut off many of the essential services, information and supports that people living with paralysis need to live healthy, productive lives. This is simply unacceptable. It’s imperative we let Congress know they can’t ignore the voices of the paralysis community, and we will not stand idly by as the PRC and other lifesaving programs are dismantled from the federal budget.
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