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Attorney General Aaron M Frey prevailed in preserving funding for AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism.  The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) agreed to release more than $184 mlillion in funding for AmeriCorps service programs across the country according to a press release issued this morning by the AG’s office.

On July 23, AG Frey joined a coalition in filing an amended lawsuit challenging OMB’s attempt to gut AmeriCorps programs.  Today, when their response for these actions was due in court, OMB and AmeriCorps instead agreed to fully release the previously withheld funds.

“AmeriCorps represents some of the best of American values:  service, community and opportunity,” said AG Frey, “and Maine would have been deprived of this important, congressionally-funded AmeriCorps programming had I not joined suit to enforce the law.  At the last minute, when required to provide legal justification as to why it withheld funds, the Administration instead did what it should have done from the beginning and released the funding.  In order to ensure Mainers receive the benefit of programs established under the law, I will continue to work with my colleagues to hold the Administration to account when its actions ignore what is legally required.”

Last year, Maine had approximately 2,200 AmeriCorps members and $8.6 million in federal funding for operations that serve veterans, seniors and disastter victims, among others.  The Trump Administration’s previous termination of $400 million worth of AmeriCorps programs and the recent OMB withholding of funds threatened these service programs in Maine and other states.