Wednesday, April 23, 2025

White House Proposes Eliminating Head Start Funding in Sweeping Budget Cuts

The Trump administration is asking Congress to eliminate funding for Head Start, a move that would cut early education for more than half a million of the nation's neediest children and child care for their families.

Posted by Corky at 07:32 PM | 27 COMMENTS | permalink

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"46% of Head Start funding goes to rural areas, often in places without any other child care option ... " www.axios.com/2025/04/16/h ...

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-- Rachel Maddow (@maddow.msnbc.com) April 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM

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"The Head Start program had already been hit this year by layoffs and funding lags, along with a glitch this winter that briefly locked preschool providers out of their federal accounts.

The private and public schools that run Head Start classrooms are deeply reliant on federal money, and this year's funding problems have caused some preschools to close temporarily.

Those closures cut off child care for hundreds of thousands of low-income families, for whom a day without work is often a day without pay."

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"The National Head Start Association said it was "deeply alarmed" by the administration's proposal to stop funding the six-decade-old program.

"It reflects a divestment in our future," said Yasmina Vinci, executive director of the NHSA, in a statement Thursday.

"Eliminating funding for Head Start would be catastrophic. It would be a direct attack on our nation's most at-risk children, their well-being, and their families."

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Republicans could save more money by deporting these children directly to El Salvador... aka Phase Two.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-20 08:58 PM

Sacrifices must be made. Elon Musk needs a tax cut.

#2 | Posted by censored at 2025-04-20 10:25 PM

@#2 ... Elon Musk needs a tax cut. ...

Wow.

Cutting to the chase.

And in the second message of a thread.

                                           Kudos.


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-20 10:38 PM

Another of the best investments in America, gone.

Make America Gawd Awful.

#4 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-20 10:51 PM

America needs sweatshop workers and military recruits.

Education must be eliminated. As well as child labor laws.

Let's make America great again!

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-20 11:43 PM

Anything that benefits regular people. Head Start, the National Parks, Medicare,SS, Medicaid.

Must be eliminated.

Why?

Only the top 1% in income are actually Full Citizens?

Only their interests matter?

???

What other reasons are driving this?

Economic Growth? That's BS.

#6 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-04-21 10:33 AM

Trump: "We are cancelling Head Start funding because I and my cabinet members have thoroughly proven that you don't need to be educated past a preschool level in order to achieve success in life by being elected or appointed to the highest offices of the land."

#7 | Posted by ExpectingReign at 2025-04-21 11:09 AM

Head Start has proven to provide ZERO long term educational benefits. It is a make-work daycare program only and education is not the focus.

#8 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-21 07:03 PM

www.msnbc.com

Rwingers never liked Johnson's Great Society Programs, building on FDR's werk, especially social security or healthcare or helping poor children WHO ARE POOR BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS AREN'T PAID A LIVING WAGE.... not because they are stupid and lazy.

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-21 07:12 PM

"WHO ARE POOR BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS AREN'T PAID A LIVING WAGE.... not because they are stupid and lazy.
#9 | Posted by Corky"

It is a bit of column A, and a bit of column B. Toss in drug/alcohol addiction too.

Also, as I said before, you can't whine about a 'living wage' AND support illegal immigration and free trade.

#10 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-21 07:14 PM

#10

Lessee, what pray tell is the value of the opinion of a traitor to his country?

Less than nada.

-whine about a 'living wage'

You gotta love low middle income 'Muricans who think they are wealthy enough to look down on working people as, "whiners".

Their abject servitude to the Oligarchs who bought Trump for Pres this year would be nauseating were it not so common.

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-21 10:28 PM

This is a great way to encourage women to have more children as reporting indicates that the Trump administration wants to do.

#12 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2025-04-22 10:39 AM

"#11 | Posted by Corky"

Let's make it more simple - do you think mass illegal immigration raises or lowers income for people in the bottom 20% of income for US citizens?

Think real hard - maybe channel the Democrats from 20 years ago.

#13 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-23 08:06 PM

"#12 | Posted by FedUpWithPols"

Birthrates for US citizens will result in a collapse eventually. You have 2 choices:

1.) Encourage more births from US citizens - you do this if you love your own people
2.) Import more foreigners - you do this if you hate your own people

#14 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-23 08:08 PM

"Also, as I said before, you can't whine about a 'living wage' AND support illegal immigration and free trade."

Unemployment remains low. Mexican immigrants can't do many of the available jobs but they are hired to do less technical jobs Americans don't want to do. Right now only a few miles from here tomatoes are rotting in the field. Citrus growers can't get their trees picked.

#15 | Posted by danni at 2025-04-23 11:45 PM

"Right now only a few miles from here tomatoes are rotting in the field. Citrus growers can't get their trees picked."

I almost feel sorry for DeSantis. He got cucked so hard.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 11:47 PM

And has Trump living right there in his State in a much gaudier house too.

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 11:47 PM

@#14 ... Birthrates for US citizens will result in a collapse eventually. ...

How so?

#18 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-23 11:53 PM

@#15 ... Right now only a few miles from here tomatoes are rotting in the field. ...

... and as I noted in a previous comment...

Back when I was a kid, my parents used to drive to New Jersey farms[1] to get vine-ripened tomatoes.

There is nothing that tastes like a vine ripened tomato.

1- yeah, we drove over the Outerbridge Crossing to get to New Jersey. It was a bridge named after Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge.

They couldn't, with a straight face, call it the Outerbridge Bridge. So, they came up with then name Outerbridge Crossing.

But, in hindsight, the moniker Outerbridge Bridge may have been fun. :)


#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-24 12:01 AM

do you think mass illegal immigration raises or lowers income for people in the bottom 20% of income for US citizens?
#13 | POSTED BY SCOTTS

Neither.

Minimum wage remains low because republicans fight increasing wages as if their very lives depend upon it.

They use the same excuse, every time.

"Raising minimum wage will increase prices."

What they really mean is, wealthy people will raise prices in order to offset paying their employees more.

Getting rid of undocumented immigrants won't cause their employers to increase wages, "Not without increasing prices."

#20 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-24 12:17 AM

Import more foreigners - you do this if you hate your own people
#14 | POSTED BY SCOTTS

America is a nation of foreigners.

You racist moron.

#21 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-24 12:18 AM

@#14 ... you do this if you hate your own people ...

Please define "your own people."

thx.

#22 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-24 12:27 AM

"America is a nation of foreigners."

Yes but it was supposed to be White Foreigners Only.

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-24 12:30 AM


I almost feel sorry for DeSantis. He got cucked so hard.
#16 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

But this is what Lumpers were asking for right? Less job availability, and stronger/harsher punishments for corporations that hire them.

#24 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-24 12:41 AM


Yes but it was supposed to be White Foreigners Only.

#23 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Thank god us Asians and Blacks arrived.


Head Start has proven to provide ZERO long term educational benefits. It is a make-work daycare program only and education is not the focus

This is what the research indicates by third grade you don't know which students were in the program or not, some times this is wiped out be first grade.

Which makes GasLighter wonder perhaps the problem is something else.

#25 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-24 12:44 AM


Let's make it more simple - do you think mass illegal immigration raises or lowers income for people in the bottom 20% of income for US citizens?

Of course it does, mass immigration in general destroys the stability that previously existed, in many dimensions, some of them are for the good.

#26 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-24 12:46 AM


@#14 ... you do this if you hate your own people ...

Please define "your own people."
thx.
#22 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Citizens, now please answer the question.

#27 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-24 12:47 AM

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