It’s over…
President Donald Trump ordered the dismantling of news agency Voice of America, the U.S.’s state-funded media outlet.
“Voice of America has been out of step with America for years. It serves as the Voice for Radical America and has pushed divisive propaganda for years now,” a senior White House official told Fox News.
Trump signed an executive order on Friday that commands the dismantling of seven government offices, including the United States Agency for Global Media, which is the parent company of Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
“The non-statutory components and functions of the following governmental entities shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law, and such entities shall reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law,” the EO reads.
Kari Lake, whom Trump tapped as the VOA’s next chief in December, is currently serving as senior advisor at the U.S. Agency for Global Media and told employees to “check your email” for more information on their employment futures.
“The President has issued an Executive Order titled Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy. It affects USAGM and its outlets VOA and OCB. If you are an employee of the agency please check your email immediately for more information,” Lake, who is also a former news anchor and Republican Arizona political candidate, posted to X. OCB refers to the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, which is a Spanish language, government-funded radio and TV broadcaster that operates Radio and TV Martí in Miami, Florida.
Employees received an email on Saturday detailing that their employment was terminated, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The U.S. Agency for Global Media and Lake issued a press release on Saturday saying the agency is “not salvageable.”
“From top-to-bottom this agency is a giant rot and burden to the American taxpayer—a national security risk for this nation—and irretrievably broken. While there are bright spots within the agency with personnel who are talented and dedicated public servants, this is the exception rather than the rule,” the press release said.
Fox News reported that Voice of America has come under scrutiny for promoting biased content, especially its coverage of the ongoing conflict in Gaza. VOA has been accused of “sanitizing” Hamas when the outlet neglected to note in an article in January that residents in Gaza cheered the terrorist group when it brought out coffins holding the remains of Israeli hostages, including children.
The government-funded news outlet has also come under fire for other stories across the years, including running an article in 2020 that asked, “What Is ‘White Privilege’ and Whom Does It Help?” It was also criticized over publishing a story and video that was compared to a Biden campaign video in 2020, and downplaying the Hunter Biden laptop controversy.
“I have monitored the agency’s bureaucracy along with many of its reporters and concluded that it has essentially become a hubris-filled rogue operation often reflecting a leftist bias aligned with partisan national media,” a former VOA employee wrote in an op-ed last year calling for the outlet’s dismantling. “It has sought to avoid accountability for violations of journalistic standards and mismanagement.”
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I have to agree. Let’s see which activist judge is going to take this under his wing and try to stop President Trump’s EO.
Voice of America was considered important during a war. Now some wonder which side they are on.
Hard to conceive of how the “Voice of America” could have became another anti-American voice. Next thing you know, MSM won’t be able to blame everything creepyjoe ever did on DJT (I hesitate to imagine MSM ever becoming honest and factual)
All the public tax-paying radio stations should go. They are propaganda to the core.