Urban Institute – May 29, 2025
In recent months, the Trump administration has considered cutting funding for Head Start, a federal program that provides child care to families with low incomes across the US. Though the administration’s final budget request did not include cuts to the program, recent remarks from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggest Head Start could receive flat funding, or the same level of funding as the previous year, during this year’s appropriations process.
In effect, this would reduce the number of children served by Head Start and Early Head Start over time: as program costs and inflation rise, programs would likely be forced to reduce their enrollment to continue operating.
Funding for Head Start not only supports children’s educational outcomes but also provides a vital source of daily nutrition for roughly 800,000 children at risk of food insecurity. With Congress poised to make drastic changes to essential nutrition programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), policymakers should keep Head Start’s often-overlooked role in fighting child food insecurity in mind.
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