A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to restore funding to AmeriCorps volunteer service programs in two dozen states, finding that the government’s efforts to dismantle the independent agency likely violated federal administrative law.

Baltimore-based U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman granted a preliminary injunction sought by a coalition of 24 Democratic states, which sued in response to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cutting AmeriCorps’ funding by $400 million and terminating about 85% of its workforce. The staffing and funding cuts were part of the administration’s ongoing efforts to reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy.

In the 86-page order , Boardman reasoned that the administration’s abrupt dismantling of AmeriCorps — specifically, t

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