The coalition says Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service doesn’t have the legal right to dismantle the only federal agency for community service and volunteerism.

Several states have sued the Trump administration over the Department of Government Efficiency’s cuts to the AmeriCorps program. More than 20 attorneys general and two states filed a lawsuit challenging the administration’s dismantling of the independent agency under DOGE,

U.S. Democratic-led states on Tuesday filed a lawsuit alleging that the Trump administration had effectively dismantled AmeriCorps. They claimed that the president carried out the action by abruptly canceling grants and cutting 85% of the workforce of the federal agency for national service and volunteering.

A coalition of local governments from across the country along with labor unions and other groups, are suing the Trump administration to challenge cuts made by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and other agencies.

California is joining a coalition of states in suing the Trump administration over massive cuts to AmeriCorps, California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said.

A coalition that also includes nonprofits argued in a lawsuit that the U.S. DOGE Service’s federal workforce cuts and reorganization plans are unconstitutional.

A coalition of more than two dozen labor unions, cities and nonprofits sued President Donald Trump’s administration, claiming that its broad federal workforce cuts were an illegal power grab.

The City of Chicago joined a lawsuit by local governments, unions, and nonprofits against the Trump administration for what they allege was the illegal firing of federal workers.