Some Head Start programs are struggling to continue services as funding delays hit. The delays come after Trump walked back on an effort to freeze federal grants.

The Justice Department has said that it told federal agencies to comply with a court's restraining order against the freeze.

The Manhasset/Great Neck Head Start program will shut down Monday morning if it does not regain federal funding that it has not been able to access since Tuesday in the wake of the short-lived federal freeze,

The problem that first surfaced last week during President Donald Trump’s aborted effort to freeze federal grants.

Some Head Start preschools around the country could be at risk of closing 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.

But on Wednesday, Senator Schumer called on the United States Department of Health & Human Services to fix the payment system so that the Head Start programs can continue their work. According to Schumer, the freeze may "shutter" Head Start programs or force them to lay off staff.

A week after a federal spending freeze was halted, some early childhood education programs in West Virginia are still having trouble drawing down money.

As the White House paused federal grants and loans in a far-reaching executive order, early childhood education centers and states discovered Tuesday they could no longer access money they rely on to provide care for some of the nation’s neediest families and children.

Wisconsin Head Start programs are still struggling to recover from the federal freeze on grants and loans ordered by President Donald Trump on Jan. 28. Even though the White House clarified that the freeze wouldn't affect Head Start programs and rescinded the order on Jan.