A broad federal funding freeze announced by the Trump administration last week and blocked by a pair of judges is destabilizing a wide range of programs despite the court interventions.

Over the past few days, some health care and head start programs report they have sporadically been blocked from funding, forcing some to shut down.

Political correspondent Lisa Desjardin has been investigating what's happening and joins us now to

share what she has found. So Lisa, what have you found? Who's being affected here?

Right. NewsHour's been in front on this. I've been doing three days of reporting with

Ali Rogan as well to figure out what's happening here. And I want to talk about two specific areas.

One, Head Start programs around the country and also community health care centers.

Both of them are funded in large part through the Department of Health and Human Services, HHS.

Here's what we know.

There have been funding problems in the last week and day.

Head Start programs in 27 states have felt these sporadic funding freezes, many of them

still feeling it.

Those serve 20,000 kids and families, the affected programs.

Now community health centers in at least nine states over the past few days have also been

blocked from accessing and being able to get their funding.

Now Head Start programs, of course, are focused on early childhood learning and families.

Some of them have already spent some of this money and they needed to recoup it as part of the program.

In Washington State, Head Start programs have had these blocks, they call them rolling blackouts.

So this created an incredible amount of chaos and confusion across our community.

It met a lot of programs, even up until yesterday, we're worried about paying their rent,

paying their staff. And at the end of the day, what really impacts are the kids and the families.

They're the ones that are depending on child care.

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