Kari Lake Confirms Firings of More Than 600 VOA, USAGM Employees

Almost 640 employees at Voice of America and the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) have been fired, according to USAGM senior adviser Kari Lake. “Today, we took decisive action to effectuate President [Donald] Trump’s agenda to shrink the out-of-control federal bureaucracy,” Lake said in a statement on June 20. The move was based on an executive order that Trump signed in March to reduce the federal bureaucracy. “Reduction in Force Termination Notices were sent to 639 employees at USAGM and Voice of America, part of a long-overdue effort to dismantle a bloated, unaccountable bureaucracy,” said Lake. “For decades, American taxpayers have been forced to bankroll an agency that’s been riddled with dysfunction, bias, and waste. That ends now.”...