A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump‘s administration to pause across-the-board cuts to AmeriCorps in response to a lawsuit filed by 24 states. The federal community service program that oversees thousands of volunteers was targeted in mid-April by the Department of Government Efficiency,

A federal judge has issued a temporary block on the Trump administration’s cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars in AmeriCorps grant funding and thousands of service workers in about two dozen states that sued in April.

A judge ordered the Trump administration on June 5 to restore programs funded by AmeriCorps, including numerous workers helping WNC's Helene recovery.