Trump Administration Works to Reform Foster Care System

Trump Administration Works to Reform Foster Care System
President Donald Trump (L) greets Katharine Alexander, who was born addicted to opioids, and her adoptive mother Lisa Alexander, during the Susan B. Anthony List 11th Annual Campaign for Life Gala at the National Building Museum in Washington on May 22, 2018. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images
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President Donald Trump’s administration announced it will ignore an Obama administration regulation banning federal funding for religiously based child welfare providers, including foster care facilities.

Previously, these facilities couldn’t operate with federal funding if they practiced supposed religious discrimination toward groups including homosexual foster parents.