Project Eugenics: The Rollback of Disability Rights

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This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in the United States. Not an accident. Not a series of bureaucratic missteps. An assault that has been coordinated across agencies, policy domains, and governing priorities and has undoubtedly made disabled life more precarious, more surveilled, and more disposable.

This harm is not confined to a single law or administration memo. It is produced through the steady dismantling of civil rights enforcement, the erosion of accessibility infrastructure under the language of “efficiency,” and the intentional obstruction of benefits and care through administrative cruelty. Delay. Denial. Attrition. Outcomes that policymakers know and accept will result in suffering and death.

At the same time that rights infrastructure is hollowed out, punishment expands. Detention. Policing. Involuntary commitment. Institutionalization. These policies are framed as solutions to poverty, homelessness, migration, and “disorder,” but they function as tools of containment. Tools that are not centered on managing disability through care or investment, but through coercion. Disabled people who are unhoused, poor, immigrants, Black, queer, or otherwise multiply...