The hooks, childcare and Head Start programs reached out, concerned that they would have to shutter their doors or lay off staff if federal funding was paused. One A Head Start program told me that their portal to access the funds that they need to stay open was down, inaccessible. And I heard from another Head Start program in western Wisconsin that serves hundreds of children. They told me that they'd have to start laying off employees as soon as Thursday if their funding was cut. (02:59–03:10)
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Asserts that a Head Start program's funding access portal was down.
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