AG Tong Blocks Trump Administration Cuts to AmeriCorps
(Hartford, CT) – Attorney General William Tong as part of a coalition of 23 attorneys general and two governors today announced an agreement to stop the Trump administration from dismantling AmeriCorps again without warning. The settlement resolves a multistate lawsuit brought in response to the administration’s repeated attempts to gut the nation’s volunteer service programs. Previously, as a result of the lawsuit, the Trump administration was forced to reinstate nearly $400 million in terminated AmeriCorps programs and agreed to release over $184 million in funds to service programs in Connecticut and across the country. This settlement protects the funding and participants of those programs for Fiscal Year 2026 as well. “Gutting AmeriCorps was a shortsighted, irrational attack on communities across…