Trump Made Foster Children a Priority. That Shouldn't Change Under Biden.
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🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
“Every child deserves a family,” begins President Donald Trump’s executive order last June on “Strengthening the Child Welfare System for America’s Children.”
The Trump administration made foster children a priority, working with state and local groups to place children in loving homes more quickly and to ensure that fewer children are entering the system to begin with.
Lynn Johnson, assistant secretary at the Administration for Children and Families, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, joins the show to discuss how that executive order last summer has improved the foster care system and why it’s so important for the incoming Biden administration to continue to make vulnerable children a priority.
We also read your letters to the editor and share a "good news story" about a young woman who found a way to use horses to inspire a love of reading in students.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, January 19th. I'm Robert Louie. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm Virginia Allen. We hope that you all had a wonderful holiday weekend and were able to spend a little bit of time celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 0:21.0 | On today's show, I talk with Assistant Secretary Lynn Johnson of the |
| 0:25.1 | Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families. We |
| 0:29.3 | discuss President Trump's June Executive Order on strengthening the child welfare system for America's children. |
| 0:36.2 | And how effective it has been at connecting children with loving families and allowing faith-based |
| 0:42.2 | adoption agencies to continue serving the needs of |
| 0:45.0 | children and families. |
| 0:47.0 | We also read your letters to the editor and share a good news story about a young woman who |
| 0:51.3 | has found a way to use horses to inspire a love of reading and students. |
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| 1:37.2 | I am so pleased to be joined by Lynn Johnson, the Assistant Secretary at the |
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| 1:54.1 | Assistant Secretary Johnson, welcome to the show. |
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