Trump Admin Notifies Congress It Is Eliminating US Agency for Global Media

Kari Lake said that senior career USAGM leadership personnel reviewed and approved of the plan.
Trump Admin Notifies Congress It Is Eliminating US Agency for Global Media
The Voice of America building in Washington on June 15, 2020. Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
Jackson Richman
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The Trump administration has notified Congress it plans to close the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM).

In a letter to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch (R-Idaho), obtained by The Epoch Times, USAGM senior adviser Kari Lake wrote that President Donald Trump ordered in March that “the non-statutory components and functions of [the USAGM] shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.”

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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