The Trump administration has terminated over 600 employees of Voice of America, VOA, in a latest round of sweeping cuts to dismantle the services of international broadcasting organization.
The mass terminations announced on Friday shrank the organization founded in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda, to just 250 employees across the entire parent group the US Agency for Global Media ,USAGM.
Kari Lake, Trump’s senior advisor to USAGM, while announcing the development said:
“For decades, American taxpayers have been forced to bankroll an agency that’s been riddled with dysfunction, bias and waste. That ends now.”
The agency’s dismantling began in March after Trump signed an executive order targeting federal agencies he branded as bloated bureaucracy, and VOA staff were placed on paid leave and broadcasts were suspended.
The VOA cuts form part of Trump’s broader assault on the federal workforce, with tens of thousands terminated across agencies including the IRS, Social Security Administration, USAID, and departments of education, health and agriculture.
