Proposed Budget Eliminates Funding For Head Start

CNN reports:

The Trump administration is considering eliminating funding for two key federal programs that help millions of low-income Americans educate their young children and heat their homes.

A draft of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal for the coming fiscal year calls for ending support for Head Start, which provides early childhood education and other services to nearly 800,000 kids, and for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, known as LIHEAP, which assists about 6 million households with their utility bills.

The move is part of a draft plan, which CNN has reviewed, to slash roughly a third of the discretionary federal health budget, eliminate dozens of programs and greatly shrink health agencies.

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Where the elimination of Head Start, as outlined in HHS budget documents, would hit the hardest.

About 46% of Head Start funding goes to rural areas. pic.twitter.com/GYOkqsoUef

— Marcus Baram (@mbaram) April 18, 2025

When I met with RFK Jr., he didn’t even know HHS had anything to do with child care.

Now, he’s working with Trump to choke off funding for Head Start & force preschools to close, kicking kids out of the classroom and sending parents scrambling.

The end goal? Eliminating Head… pic.twitter.com/1kppQVdv3l

— Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) April 17, 2025