Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha, a coalition of 22 counterparts and two governors have been successful in their effort to preserve federal funding for AmeriCorps.
The White House's Office of Management and Budget has agreed to release more than 184-million-dollars in funding to service programs across the country.
“Within one week, our coalition has clawed back billions in federal funding, unlawfully withheld by the Trump Administration, for the people of our states,” said Attorney General Neronha. “Over the past eight months, one of the questions posed most often by Rhode Island constituents and media members alike concerns the effectiveness of our fight against the illegal actions of this Administration. The proof is in the pudding. Without these lawsuits, the residents of our states would be deprived of critical federal funding sources upon which they rely to live their lives. And unfortunately for the residents of those states with Republican attorneys general, many of those funding sources remain off. We won’t capitulate, we won’t back down, and we will continue this fight for the well-being of everyday Americans who just want a government that works for them.”
Neronha says the Trump administration unlawfully withheld the money and without the coalition's legal action states would have been deprived of critical federal funding sources.
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