How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights

This article is part of “Disabled and Denied,” a series examining cuts to Medicaid home care and the fallout for disabled people and their families.

In a secret meeting at the White House complex this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out the plan: To make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people, the Trump administration was pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.