Donald Trump spent his entire campaign lying about helping working families — and then enacted a Project 2025 federal funding freeze that is leaving millions of Americans stranded without access to child care and critical health care services. From locking down Head Start programs to shuttering community health centers, Trump’s funding freeze is having devastating consequences across the country. The American people deserve leaders who look out for them — but Trump is all too happy to leave hardworking families out in the cold. 

Here’s a look at the impacts of Trump’s disastrous Project 2025 funding freeze: 

NBC News: “Health clinics face cuts, closures as Trump’s funding fight ripples outside of Washington”

“Across the country, health clinics and nonprofit organizations largely serving rural and low-income patients have found themselves unable to access previously allocated federal funds, as a short-lived government funding freeze has continued to disrupt daily operations for a range of programs. …

“[O]rganizations say they are still unable to access money they urgently need to pay for salaries, utilities, supplies and other expenses — threatening their ability to continue operating in their communities. …

“Community health centers, also known as federally qualified health centers, rely on federal grants for part of their funding in order to provide medical care, dental, behavioral health and substance use disorder services to more than 32 million Americans. That makes for 1 in 5 rural Americans and 1 in 3 people living in poverty, according to the National Association of Community Health Centers. 

“In Virginia, 11 of the state’s 31 community health center operators were still unable to access their funding as of Thursday morning … Several clinics in Maine, Nebraska, Illinois and Michigan have also been unable to draw down funds from the federally run website they use to access the money … The Community Health Center Association of Mississippi said last week that 21 centers were locked out the system where they draw down funding. … Elena Nicolella, head of the Rhode Island Health Center Association, said health clinics in [Rhode Island] have seen rolling issues since last week’s funding freeze. … In West Virginia, the nonprofit organization Libera has been unable to access funds from an HHS grant to help pay for mental health support groups and resources for middle school girls” 

PBS: “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, forcing some to shut down. …

“Head Start programs in 27 states have felt these sporadic funding freezes, many of them still feeling it. Those serve 20,000 kids and families, the affected programs. 

“Now, community health centers in at least nine states over the past few days have also been blocked from accessing and being able to get their funding.”

LA Times: “[T]he [National Head Start] association said at least 52 programs across 22 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico are still experiencing funding delays. The programs, which serve nearly 20,000 children from birth through age 5 …

“As of Tuesday … at least six California-based Head Start programs were experiencing funding delays. Cumulatively, those programs employ 884 people and serve 3,856 children. …

“Several programs in other states closed down temporarily because of funding delays. In an added complication, the federal Office of Head Start is housed within the Department of Health and Human Services, which the Trump administration prohibited from communicating with the public” 

Associated Press: “Still locked out of federal funding, several Head Start preschools may need to close temporarily”

“The delays can be catastrophic for Head Start operations, many of which are fully funded by federal money that is doled out on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. In the wake of the federal funding pause last week, a Michigan nonprofit that runs 17 Head Start schools had to close its doors for a day because it could not pay its employees. …

“In Wisconsin, the National Centers for Learning Excellence, which serves more than 200 children and their families, shut down for a week and laid off staff …

“At least a dozen other grant recipients in Wisconsin could not access their funds in Wisconsin. Other centers in Pennsylvania also were contemplating shutting down if they can’t access funding soon.”