DES MOINES, Iowa ( IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH ) - Since July, grantees of AmeriCorps program funding, including one group in Iowa , have been waiting for their awarded funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.

State attorneys general from 24 states and affected grantees alleged in separate lawsuits that the White House Office of Management and Budget was withholding the funds after preliminary injunctions ordered the program funds be restored.

OMB released the funds as a filing deadline in the suit waged by the state attorneys general approached, and AmeriCorps grantees announced Tuesday they had also received their withheld funding.

The release of nearly $185 million from OMB represents “the remaining Fiscal Year 2025 funding” for the programs, according to a filing in the case by OMB an

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