America has a child care crisis that’s hurting millions of families every day, and Trump and Congressional Republicans are failing to help working

Congress appropriated amounts to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for fiscal year (FY) 2025 to carry out the Head Start Act. Between...

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A Department of Health and Human Services employee has emailed dozens of people this week, mistakenly including plans to slash research related to child safety net programs.

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The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.

Floated cuts include some programs mandated by Congress.

For generations, government jobs helped build the Black middle class. With Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE, those days may be over.

The White House's budget proposes eliminating Head Start, an early childhood education program that provides services to low-income families.

Those who work closely with the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program now fear for its future.

HHS Secretary RFK Jr., with help from DOGE, is planning a restructuring with sweeping cuts expected at multiple agencies.

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sent a letter to Head Start program recipients, amplifying President Trump’s executive order on r...

Some federal workers used their lunch breaks for activism Wednesday against recent job actions they say have impacted them, their colleagues and their clients: the American people.

The acknowledgment raises new questions about DOGE’s chain of command.

The effort is part of the Trump administration’s plan to shrink the federal government.

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The agency’s approximately 80,000 employees were emailed Friday night with the offer of a “voluntary separation incentive payment.”

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A federal judge in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order on the Trump administration's firings of thousands of probationary employees, calling the actions illegal.

The Department of Health and Human Services message comes after emails from the Office of Personnel Management and a tweet by Musk caused widespread confusion.

The move comes amid a government-wide effort to cut probationary workers by the Department of Government Efficiency task force led by billionaire Elon Musk.

The administration’s Friday night message comes as a sharp departure from the approach that Trump and DOGE have taken to cuts in other federal departments and agencies.

The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down the agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 fin...