Newspaper fights against Trump's 'litigation gamesmanship'
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President Donald Trump listens during a briefing with the media, Friday, June 27, 2025, at the White House in Washington (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin).

On Monday, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore funding to AmeriCorps volunteer service programs and reinstate workers who were dismissed without notice earlier in the year. This decision comes just over a month after another judge halted plans to dismantle the government agency.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Maddox referenced Baltimore-based U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman’s June 5 ruling in his 63-page order as he issued a preliminary injunction. This injunction blocks the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from defunding and shutting down AmeriCorps programs like the National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), and the Volunteer Generation Fund (VGF).

AmeriCorps workers collaborated with Democracy Defenders Fund and other nonprofits to sue the Trump administration in May over the budget cuts and April firings. They requested that Maddox reinstate the employees who were laid off and return approximately $400 million in funding that was reduced, a request to which Maddox, a Joe Biden appointee, agreed.

“They make a clear showing that this ‘dismantling’ consisted of several discrete agency actions: a categorical termination of all NCCC projects and participants … a sweeping cancellation of approximately $400,000,000 in AmeriCorps grants, including Nonprofit Plaintiffs’ grants and subgrants … a mass termination of more than 600 AmeriCorps employees, amounting to 85% of the staff, through placement on administrative leave on April 16, 2025, and issuance of RIF [reduction-in-force] notices on April 24, 2025,” Maddox said.

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“In short, Nonprofit Plaintiffs have been injured in their ability to operate and perform core activities, and these injuries are traceable directly to defendants’ actions — not decisions made by third parties,” Maddox concluded. “Nonprofit Plaintiffs’ injuries are traceable to defendants’ actions in terminating grants and subgrants, closing AmeriCorps programs, and placing AmeriCorps staff on leave.”

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