Executive Branch

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

The move was based on an executive order Trump signed in March to reduce the federal bureaucracy.
Kari Lake Confirms Firings of More Than 600 VOA, USAGM Employees
A view of the Voice of America (VOA) building, a day after more than 1,300 of the employees of the media broadcaster, which operates in almost 50 languages, were placed on leave in Washington on March 16, 2025. Annabelle Gordon/Reuters
Jackson Richman
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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.
Jackson Richman
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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