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More than 800,000 low-income families receive child care assistance every month through the Federal Child Care and Development Fund.
That's as of 2019, the latest numbers posted to the HHS website.
But on Wednesday, an HHS spokesperson told NPR the agency was freezing those funds until states provide certain, quote, administrative data from individual child care providers.
The spokesperson did not specify exactly what data.
In a Tuesday post on X, HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill said, quote, payments across America will require a justification and a receipt or photo evidence.
It's unclear what guidance, if any, states have received from HHS around this funding freeze.
The Department of Education says it will look into allegations that the university lacked adequate surveillance in the area where the shooting occurred and that emergency alerts of an active shooter threat were delayed.
It's requesting several documents from Brown, including annual security reports from 2024 and 2025, as well as current procedures related to campus safety.
The department says the university may be in violation of the Clery Act, a law requiring schools accepting federal financial aid to meet specific security standards.
Brown responded saying it would launch an independent investigation of the shooting and that the campus has, quote, an expansive network of security cameras.
The university also says its emergency alerts went out minutes after gunshots were first reported.