{"id":51670,"date":"2026-04-15T18:52:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=51670"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:52:29","slug":"melania-trump-to-join-lawmakers-for-roundtable-discussion-on-empowering-foster-care-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=51670","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump to Join Lawmakers for Roundtable Discussion on Empowering Foster Care Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">First Lady Melania Trump is joining the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday afternoon for a roundtable discussion to advance legislation to protect children in foster care.<\/p>\n<p>The roundtable on Capitol Hill will focus on the second aspect of the first lady\u2019s legislative agenda after the \u201cTake It Down Act\u201d was signed into law last year.<\/p>\n<p>The bipartisan legislation focuses on ways to \u201cmodernize the\u00a0<em>John H. Chafee Foster Care Program for Successful Transition to Adulthood<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cChafee\u201d) to improve outcomes for youth aging out of foster care by creating stronger connections to housing, education and training programs, and other critical supports,\u201d the Ways and Means Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/waysandmeans.house.gov\/2026\/03\/20\/ways-means-members-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-modernize-the-chafee-foster-care-program-to-improve-outcomes-for-vulnerable-youth\/\">notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2044021877077651773\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MELANIATRUMP\/status\/2044021877077651773\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to working with Congress tomorrow to advance new legislation designed to protect and empower individuals from the foster care community,\u201d the first lady said in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-175oi2r r-1s2bzr4\">\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">\u201cTomorrow\u2019s bipartisan roundtable assembles a group of leaders with a common mission: to strengthen America\u2019s next generation,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The first lady has been leaving her mark on domestic and global affairs throughout her husband\u2019s second presidential term. Trump signed the Take it Down Act, which the first lady championed, making it a criminal offense\u00a0to post an artificially generated or real sexually explicit image of someone without his or her consent, last May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">In November, Trump signed the Fostering the Future for American Children and Families executive order, which promotes partnerships between the public and private sectors to benefit those in foster care as they enter adulthood. The first lady signed both the Take It Down Act and the executive order along with her husband, and though her signature does not bear weight on the enactment of either, it signifies her influence in bringing both to fruition.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>The first lady has facilitated four rounds of family reunifications of those displaced in the Russia-Ukraine war.\u00a0<span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Breitbart News was the first to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/02\/exclusive-melania-trump-facilitates-fourth-round-family-reunifications-between-russia-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>\u00a0on the fourth round of reunifications earlier this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/15\/melania-trump-to-join-lawmakers-for-roundtable-discussion-on-empowering-foster-care-children\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Lady Melania Trump is joining the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday afternoon for a roundtable discussion to advance legislation to protect children in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}