KENTUCKY (FOX 56) — A Kentucky service commission will gain financial support to the tune of over $200,000 to develop housing, fight hunger, and more for communities of the Bluegrass after President Trump's administration agreed to release the rest of a $9 million payment in federal funding for the state on Aug. 28.

The money, appropriated by Congress to support AmeriCorps service commissions nationwide, had allegedly been halted by the Trump administration. The withholding of the funds led to a lawsuit from the attorneys general of 23 other states and the District of Columbia, including Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania.

On Thursday, to avoid the lawsuit, the president's administration agreed to release the remaining $208,487 to Serve Kentucky, the Commonwealth's AmeriCorps service commissio

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