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The Trump administration has made another good move for reasons likely not entirely noble.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday gutting the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the parent agency of America’s international propaganda network comprising Voice of America (VOA), Office of Cuba Broadcasting, Radio Free Europe, and Radio Free Asia.
Trump’s executive order mandates that USAGM be reduced “to the minimum presence and function required by law.” This approach of nearly but not completely eliminating the organization is another attempt to obliterate a government agency that was created through an act of Congress by sidestepping Congress to do so.
Michael Abramowitz, the agency’s director, said in a statement afterward, “For the first time in 83 years, the storied Voice of America is being silenced.” More than 1,300 journalists, producers and staff at VOA received an email informing them they were put on administrative leave Saturday, Abramowitz wrote on his private Facebook page. Employees said they lost access to their work email and other communications programs, according to reports. Some some VOA radio frequencies in Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere went dark.
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