WASHINGTON, March 24 -- Sen. Patty Murray issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter (https://www.murray.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Letter-to-Secretary-Kennedy.pdf) to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seeking changes to request for proposals (RFP) that would erode legal services and protections afforded by federal law to unaccompanied children.
"Legal service providers work to prevent further abuse, trauma, neglect, and exploitation of children, by building relationships with the children through in-person consultati...