Trump admin ‘caves’ in fight to restore AmeriCorps funds for WNC recovery: AG Jackson
The federal government has agreed to release $184 million in AmeriCorps funds it “unlawfully froze,” North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson told the Citizen Times Aug. 29. Those funds directly impacted jobs and grants supporting Western North Carolina’s Tropical Storm Helene recovery, he said. After a federal judge ordered the Trump administration in June to