Trump to create religious office in White House, target 'anti-Christian bias'

U.S. President Donald Trump said connected Thursday helium would make a White House religion bureau and nonstop Attorney General Pam Bondi to pb a task unit connected eradicating what helium called anti-Christian bias wrong the national government.

Trump delivered remarks astatine the National Prayer Breakfast astatine the U.S. Capitol and utilized his code to telephone for unity, telling lawmakers his narration with religion has changed since a brace of failed assassination attempts past year.

At a 2nd supplication meal successful Washington, Trump struck a much partisan tone, took a triumph thigh for getting "rid of woke implicit the past 2 weeks" and announced steps to support Christians from what helium said was spiritual discrimination.

"The ngo of this task unit volition beryllium to instantly halt each forms of anti-Christian targeting and favoritism wrong the national government, including astatine the DOJ, which was perfectly terrible, the IRS, the FBI and different agencies," Trump said.

He vowed his lawyer wide would enactment to "fully prosecute anti-Christian unit and vandalism successful our nine and to determination eden and world to support the rights of Christians and spiritual believers nationwide."

The president did not mention circumstantial examples of anti-Christian bias during his remarks but has antecedently claimed that the Biden medication utilized the national authorities to people Christians specifically.

Trump signed an enforcement bid connected Thursday to found the task unit and its responsibilities, which see recommending steps to terminate "violative policies, practices, oregon conduct."

Biden's medication announced a strategy successful December for countering anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bigotry, and a akin program to combat antisemitism successful September 2023.

The actions announced connected Thursday could airs law questions astir the separation of religion and state, with the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment limiting authorities endorsement of religion.

In the past 3 predetermination cycles, achromatic evangelical Christian voters, who marque up a captious portion of the Republican base, person supported Trump. He has embraced the blimpish Christian satellite presumption and policies that talk to the bloc's anxiousness astir changing sex norms and household patterns.

The president connected Thursday besides announced helium volition make a White House Faith Office, led by the Rev. Paula White, who has served arsenic a spiritual advisor to him for galore years.

Trump established a akin bureau astatine the White House during his archetypal word and regularly consulted with a choky radical of evangelical advisers.

Trump besides said helium would make a caller committee connected spiritual liberty, and helium criticized the Biden medication for the "persecution" of believers for prosecuting anti-abortion advocates.

In 2023, the National Prayer Breakfast divided into 2 events, the 1 connected Capitol Hill attended by lawmakers and a abstracted backstage lawsuit for thousands astatine a edifice ballroom aft immoderate lawmakers sought to region themselves from the backstage spiritual radical pursuing questions implicit however it was tally and funded.