Posted on 08/30/2025 11:24:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — The agency that oversees Voice of America and other government-funded international broadcasters is eliminating jobs for more than 500 employees, a Trump administration official said. The move could ratchet up a monthslong legal challenge over the news outlets’ fate.
Kari Lake, acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, announced the latest round of job cuts late Friday, one day after a federal judge blocked her from removing Michael Abramowitz as VOA director.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth had ruled separately that the Republican administration had failed to show how it was complying with his orders to restore VOA’s operations. His order Monday gave the administration “one final opportunity, short of a contempt trial” to demonstrate its compliance. He ordered Lake to sit for a deposition by lawyers for agency employees by Sept. 15.
On Thursday, Lamberth said Abramowitz could not be removed without the approval of the majority of the International Broadcasting Advisory Board. Firing Abramowitz would be “plainly contrary to law,” according to Lamberth, who was nominated to the bench by Republican President Ronald Reagan.
Lake posted a statement on social media that said her agency had initiated a reduction in force, or RIF, eliminating 532 jobs for full-time government employees. She said the agency “will continue to fulfill its statutory mission after this RIF— and will likely improve its ability to function.”
“I look forward to taking additional steps in the coming months to improve the functioning of a very broken agency and make sure America’s voice is heard abroad where it matters most,” she wrote.
A group of agency employees who sued to block VOA’s elimination said Lake’s move would give their colleagues 30 days until their pay and benefits end.
“We find Lake’s continued attacks on our agency abhorrent,” they said in...
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Maybe time to shut it down.
Worthless government employees think they have a right to get paid for doing nothing, into perpetuity. I don’t call them workers, since they don’t have real jobs.
I put Royce Lamberth into this group. Utterly worthless cretins who should not have employment anywhere.
It was wonderful when I was a child, the Cold War was raging, and shortwave was the way average people heard the rest of the world.
Now, it’s as useful as a W. T. Grant store, and much more leftist.
Voice Of Socialist America can rely on their SOCIALIST listeners and donors for their SOCIALIST support.
The American Taxpayers can select whatever radio station they care to support, or none, as they choose.
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I bet that there are radio stations in Russia that are less anti-American than VOA...
I’m waiting for the Peace Corps to be eliminated. They’re there to turn their participants into lifetime democrat activists. Same with it’s stepson-Americorp.
Gonna be awesome. Should we enjoy it now just for the next 14 months? It’s the mid-terms I’m worried about. Should Trump go for broke? I say what the hell?
I can remember Radio Free Europe commercials. Remember “On Broadway”?
IMHO, it is time to begin the process of replacing Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas with younger versions of each...
This needs to be done in case we do badly in the midterms, something which the GOP Senate seems to be working on as it continues its vile obstructionism that screwed Trump in 2017-2020...
It seems to be open more for nostalgia than for any useful purpose. It is far easier to get through on a Starlink connection or a VPN than via shortwave.
They gotta quit first. No guarantee they’ll quit next year either. They should while we have 53 senate seats. Next year the ‘26 elections will be a factor. People get squishy. Too many will stab Trump in the front on their way out.
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