Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea J. Campbell is touting her office’s successful efforts to restore funding to a Clinton-era national service program.
Democrat Campbell, joined by attorneys general in 23 states and two governors, sued the Republican White House in April , seeking to stop its cuts to the AmeriCorps program.
Earlier this year, the White House terminated nearly $400 million in AmeriCorps grants, a sizable chunk of the agency’s roughly billion-dollar budget, NPR reported .
The administration said in April that the grants no longer fit AmeriCorps’ priorities, but it offered no explanation for the decision.
On Friday, Campbell’s office said the White House’s Office of Management and Budget had agreed to release over $184 million in funding to AmeriCorps servi