Jan 28, 2025 · Update as of 4:00 p.m. ET, January 28, 2025 – Following the release of additional guidance and clarification from the Office of Budget Management, Head Start agencies are not included in the list of federal grants and loans whose funds are frozen. Agencies have been able to access funds through the Payment Management System (PMS). Washington, D.C.—Last night, the Trump administration ...

1 day ago · The White House said Head Start programs shouldn’t have been affected by the freeze, and a judge blocked the action amid a legal challenge to the freeze. Still, more than 45 programs serving ...

2 days ago · Leaders of dozens of Head Start preschools said they might need to close temporarily because they remain locked out of their federal funding, a problem that first surfaced last week during President Donald Trump’s aborted effort to freeze federal grants.

14 hours ago · Some Community Health and Head Start programs have sporadically been blocked from funding, forcing some to shut down. ... A broad federal funding freeze announced by the Trump administration last ...

Jan 28, 2025 · Across the country, staff trying to access Medicaid and Head Start funding through payment websites Tuesday morning were locked out, leaving some scrambling to figure out how they would cover payroll and pay vendors and rent. But the White House said hours later that funding for those programs should not have been affected by the freeze.

2 days ago · More than 1,600 local Head Start organizations around the country receive Department of Health and Human Services grants to provide early education and other services to families with young children. The organizations get approved for funding annually but draw down the money as needed in a piecemeal fashion.

Jan 29, 2025 · State Medicaid agencies, federally funded Head Start early education programs and community health centers had been among those cut off from access to the Payment Management Services web...

Jan 30, 2025 · While Head Start programs are now able to access their federal funding, the association believes the brief glitch is connected to the administration’s freeze order, Sheridan said.

Jan 28, 2025 · Head Start receives its funding through annual contracts on a rolling basis, so the grant freeze would delay payments for facilities that were expected to get funding on February 1.

Jan 28, 2025 · The funding freeze was temporarily halted by a federal judge late Tuesday, but the disruption showed how reliant programs serving the most vulnerable Americans are on the federal government.