On Thursday, March 12th, Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and Representative John Larson (D-CT) reintroduced the America’s Call to Improve Opportunities Now (ACTION) for National Service Act (H.R. 7910/S. 4068). They were joined by twenty-two original cosponsors across the House and Senate, listed below. ...
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Congress Reintroduces AmeriCorps Education Award Tax Relief Act for the 119th Congress
On March 9th – the start of AmeriCorps Week – Representatives Don Bacon (R-NE) and John Larson (D-CT) reintroduced H.R. 7878, the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award Tax Relief Act. This bipartisan bill seeks to make the AmeriCorps Education Award exempt...
Read More »Final FY26 Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill Includes Near-Level Funding for AmeriCorps
UPDATE: The bipartisan FY26 Labor-HHS-Education spending bill passed and was signed into law on Tuesday, February 3rd after a four-day partial government shutdown. On January 20th, congressional leaders unveiled their final bipartisan “minibus” ahead of the January 30th government shutdown deadline. The...
Read More »Congress Passes Stopgap Funding Bill, Ending Government Shutdown
On Wednesday night, President Trump signed a government funding package, ending the shutdown after nearly 43 days. The bill, which punts the next funding deadline into late January, does the following: Extends government funding for most federal agencies through January 30, 2026; Passes...
Read More »Lapse in Funding Leads to Federal Government Shutdown
At 12:01 AM on October 1st, the federal government officially entered a shutdown amid an impasse on Capitol Hill over competing fiscal year 2026 congressional spending bills. Both Republican and Democratic proposals that would have funded the government past September...
Read More »House Proposes Nearly 50% Cut to AmeriCorps for FY26
On September 9th, the House Appropriations Committee passed their version of the FY26 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies spending bill in a party-line vote. The Labor-HHS Subcommittee had met to mark up the bill a week...
Read More »OMB to Release Fiscal Year 2025 AmeriCorps Funds
Releases the hold on more than 180 AmeriCorps and AmeriCorps Seniors programs that provide critically needed services to their communities FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ranit Schmelzer at ranit@schmelzerstrategies.com WASHINGTON, DC (August 28, 2025) – The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)...
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