Lawmakers, Trump Clash Over Faith-Based Foster Care

A Department of Health and Human Services decision to allow faith-based child welfare groups to choose foster homes by belief is being met with opposition from a congressional leader holding the agency’s purse strings.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), who leads the Labor, HHS, and Education subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, is asking the HHS to rescind a waiver it granted to South Carolina that allows foster groups receiving taxpayer dollars to pick families by faith.

DeLauro said in a letter to HHS Secretary Alex Azar that the decision by the agency would “allow for discrimination.” DeLauro said she’s opposed ...