For this senator, Trump's special ed layoffs are personal amid shutdown showdown

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WASHINGTON – For New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan, it felt personal watching more than 120 jobs tied to special education disappear during the U.S. government shutdown.

As part of an effort to pressure Democrats like her into voting to end the ongoing budget crisis that now stretches into its third week, President Donald Trump ordered massive layoffs across the federal workforce. The firings included roughly a fifth of the U.S. Department of Education – and nearly everyone in its special education division, per court documents and the agency's union.

That's particularly painful to Hassan, a second-term lawmaker and former governor with a now-adult son, Ben, who was born almost four decades ago with cerebral palsy, a neurological condition that affects movement and posture. While in school, the senator's son needed some of the very programs that now have an uncertain fate without people to manage them.

"This is a real blow to children and families all across the country," Hassan told USA TODAY in an interview. "I don’t have constituents asking me to shut the door on kids with disabilities."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/senator-trumps-special-ed-layoffs-090631915.html

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1. Should just die

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2. I don't know that my daughter had a learning disability

But she really struggled in school. I worked and worked with her and she was just falling further and further behind. Then she got an IEP and I don’t know what that lady that worked with her did, but just one year later she’s off the IEP, in regular classes and getting all As and Bs. I’m really glad we got that benefit before Orange Mussolini kills it. Too bad future kids just get left behind and I mean that.