Lawmakers urged Trump to “elevate” the State Department’s efforts to ensure China’s cooperation on the issue.
A bipartisan group of more than 100 lawmakers is urging President Donald Trump to push communist China to resolve a disputed adoption case involving Chinese children.
They said Trump should “work on behalf of “hundreds of children and American families” on China’s decision to end the international adoption program.
“We require that we act in the best interests of these children and engage in the Chinese government to finalize these pending adoption cases,” the lawmaker wrote. “The safety of adoptions and hundreds of adoptions is our number one priority.”
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The lawmaker said China’s sudden firing “advanced” concerns about the well-being of adoptive children.
“Many of these children have special medical needs, and some soon age their care systems without permanent family support,” the lawmaker wrote. “It’s especially important that these children have access to the care and support they need, and hundreds of American families approved for adoption are trying to provide it.”
The US State Department now writes that “it is working on behalf of these families and is clear about the Chinese government’s decision.”
The lawmaker said Trump should “enforce this involvement and press the Chinese government to finalise the pending adoption case.
The letter shipper includes multiple members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (DN.H.), Senator Rand Paul (R-KY.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Curtis (R-UTAH), Tim Kane (D-VA.), and Jeff Merckley ((d-lll.).
Tim Burchette (R-Tenn.), Mark Green (R-Tenn.), Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.), and House Foreign Affairs Committee Julie Johnson (D-Texas) also signed the letter.
In December 2024, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee led in a letter to President Joe Biden, leaving a bipartisan group of 33 governors, asking him to take diplomatic action to protect China as he takes diplomatic measures.
“Dozens of families, including 12 families in Tennessee, are ready to open their homes for these children with medical and emotional needs, and most have waited nearly five years for the adoption process to complete,” Lee said in a statement at the time.
Lee includes Alabama, American Samoa, California, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missippi, Missouri, Missouri, Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
