President Trump in a Rose Garden ceremony Thursday announced an executive order he said would expand government grants to and partnerships with faith-based groups, and a top faith adviser to Trump said the aim was a culture change producing fewer conversations about church-state barriers “without all of these arbitrary concerns as to what is appropriate.”

Trump has shrunk the infrastructure built by presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the latter having created offices across most agencies with staff including dozens of people at the State Department. Under Trump many of those staffs have shrunk, and director positions have been left unfilled. However he has expanded greatly the access to the White House of conservative Christians, evangelicals, in particular, but also Catholics who feel alarmed by the growing legal tension between gay rights and conservative religious rights.


 

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