The Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget said it plans to release more than $184 million in funding for AmeriCorps, after Connecticut, New York and other Democratic-led states sued over the cuts.

AmeriCorps is a federal agency responsible for administering a network of volunteer programs nationwide. Earlier this year, the Trump administration fired the majority of its workforce and cut its funding.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, New York Attorney General Tish James, and 21 other states filed the lawsuit in April. They claimed the administration's plans to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in congressionally approved funding were unconstitutional.

The case never made it to court.

“In the face of what would have been a blistering legal defeat, the Tru

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