Reeve Foundation Applauds House and Senate Committees for Safeguarding Critical Resources for the Paralysis Community 

September 10, 2025

This week, the House Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee approved a bill that, like the bipartisan Senate version approved earlier this summer, includes full funding for the National Paralysis Resource Center (NPRC) in Fiscal Year 2026. This is an important step toward protecting critical resources for people living with paralysis, their families and caregivers. This progress is made possible by the powerful advocacy of the Reeve Foundation community, and by longstanding bipartisan supporters of the program in Congress. 

The NPRC has been central to longstanding efforts to improve health, independence, and dignity for millions. It connects people to services and resources and to hope, possibility, and a future. Its cost-effectiveness is one of the reasons it’s earned bipartisan support year after year. Ending it now, as proposed in the President’s FY26 budget, would reverse decades of progress and put lives at risk, especially given the scarcity of alternatives to the Reeve Foundation’s nationwide network of resources and support that works across states to ensure coordinated care. 

Congress has the power to ensure the NPRC’s future. As lawmakers work to finalize the FY26 appropriations process, we urge them to maintain full funding of $10.7 million for the NPRC, and we call on advocates to keep speaking out to protect this lifesaving resource.