At a public comment period, a public commenter said federal cuts to a congress-approved national service program had effectively “fired” AmeriCorps members and removed about $62,000,000 in funding for California.

The commenter said, “It's definitely with shock. I don't think you really fully hit me kind of yet, but now that whole plan of being stable is kinda just shattered,” and later added, “I'm at home already stressing enough with college, and I see that we've pretty much been, I guess, fired, just told don't show up anymore.”

Another public commenter stated that “the Department of Government Efficiency cut the national service and paid volunteer program, which provides $62,000,000 in funding to California.” That commenter also said Josh Friday leads the governor's office of service and community engagement, which oversees AmeriCorps activities, and that California is “1 of 2 dozen states suing the federal government to stop the dismantling of AmeriCorps, calling it illegal to cut the congress approved program.”

The remarks were delivered during public comment; no formal vote or board action on the matter was recorded in the transcript. Commenters framed the cuts as immediate disruptions to AmeriCorps members’ ability to serve local communities and to students who participate in the program.

A commenter closed by urging collective resistance, saying, “We're gonna fight back, and we're gonna have the backs of our service members.”