Rubio Joins Scott, Norman, Colleagues in Effort to Protect Faith-Based Child Welfare Providers

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U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Tim Scott (R-SC), along with Congressman Ralph Norman (R-SC) and colleagues, sent a bicameral letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, condemning HHS's recent reversal of protections for faith-based adoption and foster care agencies.

"We find it disturbing that one day before it released its 2021 AFCARS report, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)--with your express approval-- announced the rescission of waivers that were previously granted to faith-based adoption and foster care agencies in Michigan, Texas, and South Carolina. As you know, rescinding the waivers puts providers in these states in the untenable position of choosing between serving children under the Title IV-E foster care program or operating in accordance with the tenets of their faith -- the same faith that drives them to serve children in the first place. HHS should be welcoming child welfare providers, not excluding them. Children are too important to be pawns in political games."

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