Project 2025 Would Cut Childcare Services for Nearly a Million Rural Americans

Project 2025, an authoritarian playbook published by the Heritage Foundation for the use of any Republican president who may take office, includes plans to eliminate the Head Start Program. Head Start is publicly funded child care - it fills in gaps left by the private sector in rural areas. The program has served over 40 million people to date, including 833,000 in 2023.