AmeriCorps has become the latest target of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, with $400 million in grants on the chopping block.
According to The Washington Post, DOGE has ordered the national service program deploying thousands of volunteers across America to terminate nearly 41 percent of its total 2025 funding. More than 32,000 AmeriCorps members and senior volunteers are affected alongside 1,031 partner organizations.
The cuts are the latest in a series of DOGE-y attacks on AmeriCorps. Last week, most of the service’s roughly 650 full-time federal staff were placed on immediate paid administrative leave and barred from accessing agency systems. Hundreds of AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) members—young Americans serving 10-month stints on disaster relief, housing, and education projects—were also abruptly discharged. Just 15 percent of AmeriCorps’ workforce remains active.
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