The Trump Administration has terminated AmeriCorps staff and federal funding grants. What will happen to the volunteer agency now? Impacts on Louisiana.

Here’s what to know about the cuts and how states are responding. What is AmeriCorps? AmeriCorps is a federal agency dedicated to paid national service as well as volunteerism, offering what it says are “opportunities for Americans of all backgrounds to serve their country.

About two dozen states, including Minnesota, sued the Trump administration Tuesday over the dismantling of AmeriCorps, the 30-year-old federal agency for volunteer service, and over the cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars in grant funding for state and community projects across the U.