Overview

• The Education Department is distributing more than $1 billion in previously frozen grants for after-school and summer programs after concluding its programmatic review.
• A senior administration official said oversight guardrails will ensure the released funds comply with presidential executive orders.
• The remaining roughly $5 billion in K-12 grants is still under Office of Management and Budget review for policy alignment.
• Twenty-four Democratic-led states sued under the Impoundment Control Act and 10 Senate Republicans wrote to OMB demanding that all approved education funds be released.
• After-school providers warned that prolonged funding delays could force closures or cutbacks, leaving low-income families without care.