Nearly 400 lawmakers from all 50 states have signed a letter to the HHS, RFK, and Trump admin over their plans to dismantle the federal Head Start program. A separate letter was signed by nearly 200 members of Congress. According to a press release by the National Women's Law Center, they warned that the proposed changes would weaken early childhood program quality, destabilize local programs, and shift costs to families and individual states. This is very alarming. Removing a federal safety net for vulnerable children will cause significant harm. We can't leave children's safety in the USA at the mercy of whatever minimum standards each state chooses to enforce. The Trump admin plans to reduce mandatory training on preventing abuse, repeal prohibitions on corporal punishment, lift the absolute requirement that children be supervised at all times, and create more barriers for homeless or disabled families. Federal Head Start regulations are a mandatory floor, and if federal rules on corporal punishment and supervision are removed, child protections will revert to state-level child care laws. Children in states like Florida and South Carolina have much fewer safeguards in place than states like New York. There will be lots of blind spots where harm can occur to minors unnoticed. Maybe that's the intention. Given MAGA's commitment to protecting pedos like Jeffrey Epstein, it certainly fits a pattern for this administration to make America less safe for vulnerable children.