I wondered whether Trump/DOGE wasn't acting precipitously here; then I looked up who was running this "bipartisan" organization

DOGE Strikes Again: Staffers at This Federal Agency Were Just Placed on Leave

Agency staff at AmeriCorps received notices this week that they were being placed on leave "effective immediately." This came after President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) visited the agency's headquarters.

Reportedly, DOGE promised to cut the agency’s workforce “up to 50 percent or more.” When the notices went out, they were sent to hundreds of the agency’s 650 full-time staffers. 

I’m sure the organization has achieved some good things since it was created in 1993, but I also suspect that, like every other federal agency, and it has become bloated and partisan. Slash away.

According to Wikipedia, there are supposed to be a total of 26 directors, 15 of whom are appointed by the President. Of those 8, “no more than 8 may be affiliated withe the same political party”. Nothing in the enabling language says there must be members of another political party, so I suppose that, technically, the rules are being complied with by simply leaving some seats vacant. But the results are exactly what you’d expect for this type of organization.