Our State Department can continue helping the world's orphans

In light of the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to reorganize the executive branch, implement significant cuts in foreign aid, and streamline our foreign policy structures, it is important that certain issues do not get lost in the political shuffle. There is an abundance of waste in foreign aid programs, but not all spending is waste. And what emerges from this major reorganization will determine foreign policy priorities for years to come.

To that end, the administration must not allow orphans and extremely vulnerable children in need of permanent families to fall by the wayside.