The online system for federal health funding warned of delays due to executive orders after the Trump administration announced a freeze.
Parents of students at a Head Start school in Echo Park are raising their concerns over the Trump administration's potential decrease in federal funding.
The head of the program said the system they use to access federal funds is not working. Hundreds of kids in Waukesha were without critical early childhood education Wednesday. Funding fears prompted a complete shutdown of the Head Start programming at Child and Family Centers of Excellence in Waukesha.
The Trump administration's freeze on loans was halted by a judge, but chaos still ensued for programs serving low-income kids that are dependent on the federal government.
A federal funding freeze ordered by President Trump has been walked back, leaving families scrambling for answers, and services like Washington's Head Start program unable to give them answers.
The White House budget office rescinded a memo ordering a broad freeze on federal grants and loans after Republican senators “hit the ceiling” over the order, which caught them completely by
The shutdown impacts about 65 staff members and more than 300 kids enrolled in the free early childhood education program on Bluemound Road.
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
The White House said Head Start should not be affected by the federal freeze, but local programs are scrambling to stay open amid payment glitches.
Congressman Gabe Amo spent Thursday morning at Children’s Friend; a nonprofit head start provider in Providence, devastated by the aftershocks of the federal funding freeze.
His funding freeze play was supposed to be part of a well-planned, shock-and-awe takeover. The slapdash result suggests that the minds behind MAGA 2.0 are still a slopcore mess.