Communicate with your U.S. Senators and Representative about the President's FY26 proposed budget. State your support and/or opposition to proposed cuts impacting healthcare and education programs. Provide a personal perspective on how this initial budget would affect your clients, your family, your community, and your clinical practice. Take 5 minutes and let your voice be heard!
Please personalize the message by sharing why this issue is important to you. Indicate your role (clinician, educator, student, consumer).
Select one or all of the potential action items from the following list, and/or create your own request.
Advocacy Issues of importance to music therapy clients, clinicians, educators, and students:
- Vote NO to proposed Medicaid cuts
- Vote NO to eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
- Vote NO to eliminating the Administration for Community Living under Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Vote NO to moving the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) management to HHS
- Vote NO to eliminating the Department of Education
- Vote NO to eliminating the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
- Vote NO to dismantling HHS, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other critical federal programs.
- Vote NO to eliminating programs under the Small Business Administration (SBA) that support music therapy business owners, i.e., SCORE, Women’s Business Centers
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