If you are not worried about programs that come from the Federal government, you are not paying attention. Supports for people with disabilities are on the chopping block, everything from Food Stamps to Meals on Wheels to Social Security and Medi-Care. All of it is under threat from the heavy hand of Elon Musk.

For our brothers and sisters overseas, these threats became a nightmare in actuality with the Trump Administration’s “Stop Work” order for all International Aid on January 28. Disabled children lost the ability to attend school at the same time food supplies were cut. It’s been a disaster for disabled refugees, disability organizations, and many others.

We talk with Peter Fremlin Torres about what his international contacts told him about the effect of this order.

There have been legal challenges and protests in support of the staff at the USAID agency, but in many countries outside the U.S., the damage is real and likely to spread.

Join us to learn more about the billionaire’s war on disabled people around the world.

Peter Torres Fremlin is a disabled man who writes the weekly Disability Debrief newsletter which is archived at disabilitydebrief.org. He’s spent 10 years studying, working, and language-learning in Brazil, Bangladesh, Switzerland, and Egypt. He currently resides in Colchester, England, where he grew up.

Note: The artist who painted the picture below was Tan Kuan Aw, who sadly passed away recently. A link to his work on the Debrief is here.

Hosted and Produced by Adrienne Lauby. Audio editing by Dominick Trevethan, Denny Daughters, and Jacob Stanton.

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