Community Health Centers Caught up in Funding Freeze

Funding delays have pushed several community health centers nationwide to close or cut back on staff, citing issues accessing federal funding. The financial problems, the centers say, appear to stem from last week’s temporary domestic funding grant freeze and the implementation of new executive orders. Many grant programs, including Head Start and Title X, continue to experience financial shortfalls despite an injunction issued against the freeze. The community health center funding issues come as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has targeted programs, grants and even entire agencies across the administration that it believes are not an efficient use of government funding. A White House spokesperson said the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the administration are aware of the problem, and that it isn’t related to DOGE. The system is up and running now, but some users are experiencing lags because of high volume of requests, which HHS is working to resolve, the spokesperson said. Click here to learn more.

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