{"id":39247,"date":"2026-01-01T00:17:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/trump-administration-reportedly-freezes-all-childcare-payments-to-all-states\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:17:36","slug":"trump-administration-reportedly-freezes-all-childcare-payments-to-all-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/trump-administration-reportedly-freezes-all-childcare-payments-to-all-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump official says funds will be released \u2018only when states prove they are being spent legitimately\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health and Human Services is freezing all childcare payments to all states, an official for Donald Trump\u2019s administration <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/hhs-says-freezing-child-care-payments-minnesota-fraud-allegations\/18335717\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told ABC News in a report published Wednesday<\/a>. States\u2019 funds will be released \u201conly when states prove they are being spent legitimately\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The report came a day after Jim O\u2019Neill, the HHS deputy secretary, and Alex Adams, an HHS assistant secretary who oversees the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HHS_Jim\/status\/2006136004294664464\" rel=\"nofollow\">appeared in a Tuesday evening video message<\/a>. O\u2019Neill declared that the department had \u201cactivated our defend-the-spend system for all ACF childcare payments across America\u201d and would now require \u201cjustification, receipt or photo evidence before we make a payment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/31\/trump-administration-childcare-funding-freeze\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump official says funds will be released \u2018only when states prove they are being spent legitimately\u2019 The Department of Health and Human Services is freezing all childcare payments to all states, an official for Donald Trump\u2019s administration told ABC News in a report published Wednesday. States\u2019 funds will be released \u201conly when states prove they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 11:19:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}