Trump signs order to cut staff at Voice of America and other US-funded media organizations
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Trump issued an order Friday night to reduce costs at the U.S. Agency for Global Media and six other obscure federal agencies to the lowest amount.
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President Trump is ordering his administration to gut Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and other pro-democracy media organizations run by the U.S. government.
Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at gutting the parent of U.S. government-funded media outlet Voice of America and six other federal agencies.
President Donald Trump's administration on Saturday began making deep cuts to Voice of America and other government-run, pro-democracy programming, with a press advocacy group saying all VOA employees have been put on leave.
Voice of America employees were placed on administrative leave as the Trump administration cut grants to publicly-funded US outlets broadcasting into Russia, China and North Korea.
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