Posted on 03/16/2025 1:12:32 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
President Donald Trump ordered the dismantling of news agency Voice of America, the U.S.'s state-funded media outlet that Trump has railed against for promoting biased media reports.
"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 Digital.
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 named 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...
Employees received an email on Saturday detailing that their employment was terminated...
The U.S. Agency for Global Media and Lake issued a release ... saying the agency is "not salvageable."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Point of Order......
Was VOA terminated or was it actually an internal function, perhaps a think tank money sponge that was terminated?
“Stop the Hate and End the Fear; Kick Illegals Out of Here!”
In its day it did a great job of countering Nazi and Communist propaganda.
Before we became our own enemy.
How long before the globalist, anti American culprits and Democrat propagandists, tax supported PBS and NPR are defunded?
Voice of America
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Office of Cuba Broadcasting
Radio Free Asia
Middle East Broadcasting Networks
Open Technology Fund
Won’t be long before “Judge” Alsup makes us rehire all of them along with the thousands of probationary employees Biden added on during his reign of destruction.
I believe that is in the works now.
they should keep it going with 24/7 nonstop MAGA broadcasts. Only then would everybody else want it dismantled.
Unfortunately, if you allow any Socialism, you must ALWAYS Watch Your Six, for the Knife In The Back, ... it is a Requirement of Socialist Arrogance.
The “MEDIA” is run by the far-left, white supremacist DemonRATS. The “Media”’s job is to keep the Africa Americans on the plantation and convince other freeloaders and criminals into coming to America to pick Avocados and pee in empty Corona cans for Chucky and his RATS.
Great news! Can NPR and PBS also be defunded?
“Voice Of America” was a joke from the start. When broadcasting would start on any given day the jammers and scramblers would start up so that no one could hear the broadcasts. It was stupidity beyond belief.
That is particularly true of Cuba since Cuba is mentioned but it was the Soviet bloc who did that, too.
Now our President has to go after PBS and shut it down completely!
VOA needs to open a GO FUND ME account.
Perhaps we should alter VOA’s message and make it part of our new border security by broadcasting (mostly in Spanish) how terrible conditions are with man-from-the-dungeon vignettes highlighting the torture and degradation immigrants endure in the United States.
I understand there’s a few uniquely qualified media people who can do that well currently let go from CNN and MSNBC.
The scheme is 100% deep state, no different from funding the Wuhan Labs in the hopes of spying on them but we end up getting burned.
They are worse than USAID except they only waste a biliion dollars instead of 40 billion.
Thanks, Palmer, I’m not surprised.
Thanks for the clarification
What happens to Kary Lake?
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