Head Start, which operates in all 50 states, has long enjoyed robust bipartisan support. Head Start is designed to target poverty, experts sayHead Start serves more than half a million low-income babies, toddlers and preschoolers nationwide. If the changes take effect, they could make Head Start unrecognizable, said Khari Garvin, who ran the Office of Head Start under President Joe Biden, a Democrat. After public outcry, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose department oversees Head Start, told Congress the program’s funding was safe. Earlier this year, Trump officials also erased a Biden-era rule that mandated raises and greater benefits for Head Start employees.