DOGE Puts Most of Americorps Staff on Leave

[iluvatar5150]

https://apnews.com/article/trump-doge-americorps-cuts-volunteers-service-9b9c0e0cfb82ba6513478a35d3889b43

 

[Fantine]

Young volunteers working with poor communities for peanuts out-of a desire to serve and make a difference in the world.

 

[BCP1928]

Young volunteers working with poor communities for peanuts out-of a desire to serve and make a difference in the world.

How "woke" is that? They should be sent to El Salvador.

 

[wing2000]

Young volunteers working with poor communities for peanuts out-of a desire to serve and make a difference in the world.

"Ask not what your country can do for you...." is heresy under the current regime.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Abrupt cuts at AmeriCorps this week have landed hard in deep red states with high poverty rates like West Virginia, Mississippi and Alabama, where national service programs have long-filled gaps in education, disaster response and job training.

On Friday, AmeriCorps, at the behest of DOGE, unexpectedly terminated nearly $400 million in grants, more than 40 percent of the agency’s grant funds. The move affects more than 1,000 grantees and sidelines more than 32,000 AmeriCorps members nationwide.

Commissions in all 50 states were notified of terminations. In some states, including Alabama and Wyoming, the entire grant portfolio was axed.

They are grants to build homes, respond to disasters and support veterans — the type of work that tends to win bipartisan support.

“All those services are so well used in Louisiana,” said Billy Nungesser, the Republican Lt. Gov of Louisiana, where 13 AmeriCorps programs were cut, hitting 330 volunteers, including around three dozen veterans placed in universities and community college campuses to help other veterans transition back to civilian life.

West Virginia’s second largest AmeriCorps program — known as High Rocks — lost both of its grants on Tuesday. The organization provides workforce development training for lower-income youth.

More than 20 blue states filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the Trump administration of illegally dismantling the agency without congressional authority.

[Meanwhile, the Republican response is more like Nungesser:] “I’m hoping that the president can look at it again."

 

[Fantine]

Red states, you asked for it, you got it.
My condolences.