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.

Childcare center employees told BI that they're locked out of their federal grants, leaving them unable to pay staff and other bills.

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.

Despite a federal judge blocking the Trump administration's federal funding freeze, critical programs say they cannot access their funds. National Head Start Association Deputy Director Tommy Sheridan joins Katy Tur to share the impact the move is having on childcare programs.

A broad federal funding freeze announced by the Trump administration last week, and blocked by a pair of judges, is destabilizing a wide range of programs despite the court interventions. Some Community Health and Head Start programs have sporadically been blocked from funding,