{"id":71831,"date":"2026-04-15T17:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/melania-trump-challenges-congress-to-make-her-foster-care-executive-order-permanent-law-their-birthright\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:55:47","slug":"melania-trump-challenges-congress-to-make-her-foster-care-executive-order-permanent-law-their-birthright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/melania-trump-challenges-congress-to-make-her-foster-care-executive-order-permanent-law-their-birthright\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump challenges Congress to make her foster care executive order permanent law: ‘Their birthright’"},"content":{"rendered":"

First lady Melania Trump<\/a> delivered a plea to lawmakers on Wednesday, demanding “action over awareness” to secure the futures of America’s foster children by turning her recent executive action into permanent law.<\/p>\n

During a bipartisan congressional committee meeting, Trump outlined her vision to transform vulnerable youth into financially independent business owners<\/a>, explaining the American dream should be “their birthright.”<\/p>\n

While describing the Fostering the Future executive order she signed in November as a “transformative vision,” she said Congress now has an opportunity to create a lasting, positive impact by passing permanent legislation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since the start of her nationwide initiative, Fostering the Future, in 2021, the program has a footprint in more than 20 universities across the country, including major institutions like LSU, the University of Virginia, University of Texas and Ohio State University.<\/p>\n

FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP: AI COULD IMPROVE TEACHING AND HELP DELIVER A WORLD-CLASS EDUCATION TO OUR CHILDREN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Rather than relying on perpetual government assistance, Trump said her goal at the university level<\/a> is to prepare those in foster care to secure entry-level jobs, become financially independent, create new businesses and generate employment opportunities.<\/p>\n

She also highlighted roadblocks within the current system, noting that only roughly 3% of people in the foster care community earn a college degree.<\/p>\n

“We can close this gap, but still, foster youth face a special set of challenges outside the classroom that have a serious impact on their academic performance,” Trump said.<\/p>\n

“These issues include housing instability<\/a>, educational advocacy, financial barriers [and] transportation continuity,” she continued.<\/p>\n

“New legislation for the foster care community is a moral imperative.”<\/p>\n

The first lady added that safeguarding foster children’s well-being helps “shape the integrity of our nation” and reminded bipartisan lawmakers that “America’s children are our moral equals.”<\/p>\n

“As parents and leaders, it is our ethical obligation to ensure American children develop emotionally and physically within a safe environment,” Trump said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“As a community, we strive to nurture our children’s curiosity, protect their innocence and guide them with hearts full of care. … But to get there, a strong knowledge base is required. Education is the cornerstone of a child’s future.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First lady Melania Trump delivered a plea to lawmakers on Wednesday, demanding “action over awareness” to secure the futures of America’s foster children by turning her recent executive action into permanent law. During a bipartisan congressional committee meeting, Trump outlined her vision to transform vulnerable youth into financially independent business owners, explaining the American dream … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}