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Trump Admin Working to Fix Foster Care System: “A Home for Every Child”

“At the age of 10, I received one last hug from my mother — a hug I wished would take me to magical places I read about in storybooks. Instead, she walked out of the office in tears. I never saw my mother again.” This was part of 19-year-old Jaydan Martinez’s heart-wrenching story of how he entered Texas’s foster care system at last week’s House Ways and Means roundtable on Capitol Hill.Twenty-one-year-old Joselyn Fetting likewise described her painful experience, testifying, “I entered foster c