Ken Capone, policy director for The Arc Maryland, told a crowd at a rally in 2025 that budget cuts to the state's Developmental Disabilities Administration would threaten progress that's been made for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Photo credit: Pamela Wood / The Baltimore Banner.
Ken Capone, policy director for The Arc Maryland, told a crowd at a rally in 2025 that budget cuts to the state's Developmental Disabilities Administration would threaten progress that's been made for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Photo credit: Pamela Wood / The Baltimore Banner.

The state of Maryland and disability advocates are once again at loggerheads over budget proposals as the Moore administration released on Wednesday.

The state is considering a handful of proposals that it says would save the Developmental Disabilities Administration about $150 million in state funding.

However, disability advocates fear those policy changes could harm families with disabled members and people with disabilities who need to hire care.

Read more (and listen) at WYPR.

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