It had been nearly two weeks since the government turned all federal grants and loans off and then back on again, but many Head Start child care providers across the country still couldn’t get their money until the past few days. Some, in Wisconsin, started taking out lines of credit. Others came close to shutting their doors, at least temporarily, which would leave hundreds of low-income families without child care.
When you turn the federal government off, you can’t just switch it back on again. Even after the administration reversed its funding freeze that the OMB had ordered in late January, dozens of programs were unable to access their funding. One of those programs is Head Start, the program that funds early-childhood education and care for hundreds of thousands of low-income children across the country. Many Head Start providers were still unable to access their funding as of Friday, February 7, nearly two weeks after the funding freeze was rescinded.
https://prospect.org/health/2025-02-12-trump-attacks-child-care-for-most-vulnerable-head-start/
