“The Trump administration illegally withheld funding from a roughly $12 billion federal child care program known as Head Start, according to congressional investigators, who said that President Trump and his top aides had wrongly interrupted the flow of money enacted by Congress.
The disruption appeared to be resolved by June, according to the Government Accountability Office, a
legislative oversight agency. But its conclusions, published Wednesday, still referenced reports showing that the government’s actions may have caused immense financial hardship to some child-care services, which struggled to receive federal aid for about three months.
… The Head Start program funds child care and other services for families in poverty, serving roughly 800,000 children up to age 5, according to recent
federal estimates. Even though the safety-net initiative has long enjoyed bipartisan support, Mr. Trump considered
proposing its full elimination as part of his fiscal blueprint for 2026, calling its curriculum “radical.”
The president ultimately backed off the idea once he issued his full budget this spring. But some Head Start centers still began to report significant difficulties in getting federal funds that Congress had already approved.…”
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