Day camp providers and schools are warning that a Trump administration funding freeze could wreck summer for low-income American families and wipe out some after-school programming next year.

The administration is withholding more than $6 billion in federal grants for after-school and summer programs, English language instruction, adult literacy and more as part of a review to ensure grants align with President Donald Trump’s priorities.

The move leaves states and schools in limbo as they budget for programs this summer and in the upcoming school year, introducing new uncertainty about when — or if — they will receive the money. It also sets the stage for a clash with Democrats, who say the administration is flouting the law by holding back money Congress appropriated.

Without the money, schools say they won’t be able to provide free or affordable after-school care for low-income kids while their parents work, and they may not be able to hire staff to teach children who are learning English. Even classes or camps underway this summer could be in jeopardy.

For instance, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America depend on some of the withheld money to run camps and other summer programming for low-income students. If funding isn’t restored soon, the programming may end mid-season, said Boys and Girls Club President Jim Clark.

After-school programming in the fall could also take a hit. “If these funds are blocked, the fallout will be swift and devastating,” Clark said. As many as 926 Boys and Girls Clubs could close, affecting more than 220,000 kids, the group said.

Programs that rely on the money were expecting it to be distributed July 1, but an Education Department notice issued Monday announced the money would not be released while the programs are under review. The department did not provide a timeline and warned that “decisions have not yet been made” on grants for the upcoming school year.

In spat, Trump might now sic DOGE on Musk

Elon Musk may find out what happens when DOGE bites man.

The billionaire SpaceX, Tesla and X owner who catapulted his zealous embrace of President Donald Trump into a powerful position cutting government spending now risks sweeping cuts to his own bottom line.

Musk’s renewed heckling of Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill, which passed the Senate on Tuesday, threatens to put billions of dollars of his government contracts in jeopardy if Trump retaliates.

As Musk volleyed fresh critiques about the cost of Trump’s signature legislation, Trump mused Tuesday about turning Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency back on its creator.

“DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon,” Trump told reporters.

Trump also suggested in an early morning social media post that if Musk lost his government contracts, he “would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa.”

Asked by a reporter later if he would deport Musk, Trump paused and said, “I don’t know. We’ll have to take a look.”

In response, Musk wrote on X: “So tempting to escalate this. So, so tempting. But I will refrain for now.” Tesla and SpaceX did not respond to messages seeking comment about their CEO.

Musk has called Trump’s big bill a financial boondoggle for America that would kill jobs and bog down burgeoning industries. On Monday, he threatened to reinsert himself into politics and try to oust every member of Congress who votes for the bill.

Musk’s rocket and satellite company, SpaceX, is also in Trump’s crosshairs.

“No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE,” Trump said in his post. “BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!”

SpaceX has received billions of federal dollars to help send astronauts into space and perform other work for NASA, including a contract to send a team from the space agency to the moon next year.

Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter named to DOJ panel

A former FBI agent who was charged with encouraging the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to kill police officers has been named as an adviser to the Justice Department task force that President Donald Trump established to seek retribution against his political enemies.

The former agent, Jared L. Wise, is serving as a counselor to Ed Martin, the director of the so-called Weaponization Working Group, according to people familiar with the group’s activities.

Martin, a longtime supporter of Jan. 6 defendants, was put in charge of the weaponization group in May after Trump withdrew his name for a Senate-confirmed position as the U.S. attorney in Washington.

Even in a Justice Department that has often been pressed into serving Trump’s political agenda, the appointment of Wise means that a man who had urged violence against police officers was now responsible for the department’s official effort to exact revenge against those who had tried to hold the rioters accountable.

In visit, Trump touts ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

President Donald Trump on Tuesday toured a new immigration detention center surrounded by alligator-filled swamps in the Florida Everglades, suggesting it could be a model for future lockups nationwide as his administration races to expand the infrastructure necessary for increasing deportations.

Trump said he’d like to see similar facilities in “really, many states” and raised the prospect of also deporting U.S. citizens. He even endorsed having Florida National Guard forces possibly serve as immigration judges to ensure migrants are ejected from the country even faster.

“Pretty soon, this facility will handle the most menacing migrants, some of the most vicious people on the planet,” Trump said of the Florida site known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”

The president said the moniker is “very appropriate because I looked outside and that’s not a place I want to go hiking anytime soon.”

“The only way out, really, is deportation,” Trump added.

Hundreds of protesters converged outside the southern Florida site — a remote airstrip with tents and trailers.

Judge: HHS changes overstep the law

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with a dramatic reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services, finding that the mass firings and organizational changes were probably unlawful.

In an opinion accompanying the order, Judge Melissa R. DuBose of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island said that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts to wipe out entire programs and reorient the agency’s priorities and work far exceeded his authority.

A coalition of 19 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia had banded together in a lawsuit led by New York Attorney General Letitia James seeking to reverse Kennedy’s plan to cut 10,000 federal health workers after mass layoffs began in April.

Judge blocks move to end Haitian protection

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration’s move to terminate long-running deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the United States, preventing their removal to the Caribbean nation.

In a 23-page order, Judge Brian Cogan of the Eastern District of New York wrote that Secretary Kristi Noem, who leads the Department of Homeland Security, “does not have statutory or inherent authority” to end the immigration protections, known as temporary protected status. The administration moved to end the protection last week.

The Biden administration had extended those protections for Haitians through Feb. 3, 2026.

Cogan wrote that Noem would have to wait until then to decide not to renew the protections for Haitians, according to what he called “the statutorily prescribed procedures Congress has enacted.”

— News service reports