Legislative Updates, page 2

This spring, a bipartisan group of nearly 140 members of Congress signed letters to the leaders of the Appropriations Committees urging them to invest in AmeriCorps in fiscal year (FY) 2025. The letters were led by the co-chairs of the...

This weekend, the House and Senate passed a $1.2 trillion FY24 “minibus” funding package, which included $1.26 billion for AmeriCorps. The package, which included the six appropriations bills – Labor-HHS, Defense, Financial Services, Homeland Security, Legislative Branch, and State and...

While Congress is trying to bring the fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget process to a resolution, President Biden sent Congress his FY 2025 budget request. The Biden-Harris Administration is seeking $1.342 billion for AmeriCorps. This is a 2% increase ($29...

On January 18, in the face of a looming government shutdown, Congress passed a third continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government funded at fiscal year 2023 levels until early March 2024. Similar to November, the CR faced opposition from...

In October, the AmeriCorps agency published in the Federal Register proposed revisions to four AmeriCorps State and National regulations (§ 2520.50, § 2521.60, § 2521.70 and § 2522.235) and launched a public comment period to collect feedback on the updates. Four changes...

This week, Congress passed a clean, bipartisan continuing resolution (CR) to maintain current funding levels into the new year. While the CR faced considerable opposition from the House Freedom Caucus and their allies, it passed both chambers with broad support...