It’s a full-time job just to protect my brother’s care
Laura outlines two profound ways Trump-era policies have impacted her family. First, as legal guardian to her brother with a traumatic brain injury, she’s been buried in bureaucratic red tape, spending hundreds of hours navigating broken systems like Medicaid and Social Security. Second, financial pressures—driven by portfolio losses, fears over Medicare changes, rising prescription costs, and Social Security instability—have made retirement impossible despite chronic pain.