TRI-CITIES, WA. - A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s termination of AmeriCorps.

The ruling comes following a lawsuit from 24 states, including Washington, after the trump administration fired nearly 85 percent of AmeriCorps employees and cut more than 1,000 grants that supported its tens of thousands of volunteers with roughly $400 million in federal funding.

Judge Deborah L. Boardman of the Federal District Court in Maryland ordered that the program be returned to the status quo before the Trump administration cuts took effect in April, and that its participants resume their work “if they are willing and able to return.”

In the Columbia Basin, leaders with the United Way of Benton & Franklin Counties tell KEPR News the $350,000 in funds they receive year

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