As the White House paused federal grants and loans in a far-reaching executive order, early childhood education centers and states discovered Tuesday they could no longer access money they rely on to provide care for some of the nation’s neediest families and children.

The online system for federal health funding warned of delays due to executive orders after the Trump administration announced a freeze.

The Trump administration's freeze on loans was halted by a judge, but chaos still ensued for programs serving low-income kids that are dependent on the federal government.

Parents of students at a Head Start school in Echo Park are raising their concerns over the Trump administration's potential decrease in federal funding.

A federal funding freeze ordered by President Trump has been walked back, leaving families scrambling for answers, and services like Washington's Head Start program unable to give them answers.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, during her first press briefing, faced a barrage of questions on the administration's freeze on federal aid programs.

The White House budget office rescinded a memo ordering a broad freeze on federal grants and loans after Republican senators “hit the ceiling” over the order, which caught them completely by

The head of the program said the system they use to access federal funds is not working. Hundreds of kids in Waukesha were without critical early childhood education Wednesday. Funding fears prompted a complete shutdown of the Head Start programming at Child and Family Centers of Excellence in Waukesha.

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

The shutdown impacts about 65 staff members and more than 300 kids enrolled in the free early childhood education program on Bluemound Road.

The withdrawal of the federal freeze was a stunning about-face for President Donald Trump’s White House, which has so far pushed the envelope to reshape the federal government, sowing chaos and confusion in firing career civil servants, pausing foreign aid programs and offering federal workers a buyout.

The White House said Head Start should not be affected by the federal freeze, but local programs are scrambling to stay open amid payment glitches.