On June 9th, the House Appropriations Committee passed their fiscal year 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies spending bill in a party-line vote. The Labor-HHS Subcommittee met during the previous week to mark up the bill, on...
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Congressional Champions Urge Appropriators to Increase Investment in AmeriCorps
This spring, a bipartisan group of 160 members of Congress signed letters to the leaders of the Appropriations Committees urging them to provide increased funding for AmeriCorps in fiscal year (FY) 2027. The letters were led by leaders of the National Service Congressional Caucus: Representatives...
Read More »White House Releases FY27 Budget Request
On Friday, April 3rd, the White House Office of Management and Budget released the Administration’s FY27 budget proposal. This largely symbolic budget blueprint outlines the Administration’s top priorities for spending and budget cuts. The request proposes a $500 billion increase...
Read More »ACTION for National Service Act Reintroduced in House & Senate for the 119th Congress
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. ...
Read More »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...
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