Idaho Legislature: Ask Legislators to VOTE NO on SCR105 - Adoption, federal funds, supporting (posted 02/23/25)

• Bill: legislature.idaho.gov/s…

• Contact Legislators: emailidaho.com

(Check the linked page or use My Bill Tracker for the bill’s current status.)

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SCR105 supports federal funds for adoption education, adoption awareness, and improving and expanding birth mother support and care. Idaho Department of Health and Welfare would use such funds for administration, oversight, management, and reporting of programs related to adoption education resources, emotional support resources, physical and medical support, and adoption-related legal support.

SCR105 expresses good intentions. After all, who doesn’t want more kids to find loving adoptive homes and to make the process easier for birth mothers? But it is a nanny-state idea.

The Idaho legislature should NOT support taking federal funds from an already in-the-hole federal budget for nicety programs in Idaho. Taking federal money increases Idaho’s dependency on big government, reduces the state’s autonomy (because federal funds never come without strings), and expands government into an area where private charities and organizations – not the state – belong.

And what happens if federal money dries up during budget cuts (remember DOGE?) and Idaho has become dependent on this program (which likely will involve additional state bureaucrats for administration)? Will Idaho taxpayers then be on the hook for yet another federally funded program that dried up?

Finally, is it fair to ask Federal taxpayers from every state to support this project in Idaho?

Reference:

• Senate Concurrent Resolution 105 — Adoption, federal funds, supporting (-1):