VOA-nominated Kali Lake told staff to check emails “quickly” on Saturday.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Friday to dismantle eight federal agencies, building up his latest action-building based on his previous directives to deem elements of federal bureaucracy “unnecessary.”
He gave the Agency Head seven days to report compliance to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Furthermore, cutting the eight institutions streamlines government priorities, saving taxpayer dollars and “emissions swamps.”
Trump’s orders include seven agencies to be excluded: the Federal Mediation and Mediation Services, the US Global Media Agency, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the US Interagency Council on Homelessness, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, and the Minority Business Development Agency.
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The White House fact sheet identifies the deprecation of the eighth entity. This is the Arctic Research Committee.
The Epoch Times contacted the White House with a request to ensure that the Arctic Research Committee is wrapped in Trump’s latest directive.
The US Global Media (USAGM), which runs Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia, has been on the Trump crosshairs since his first term. With an annual budget of around $900 million, operating a network that airs in over 60 languages and around 100 countries, USAGM is the target of criticism from Trump’s allies who claim it works with liberal bias.
She was sworn in as a senior advisor to USAGM on March 3rd.
The move represents Trump’s latest steps to restructure the federal bureaucracy and waste its operation more. The President has led high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk in his efforts in his role as a special government official in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Trump said he and his administration are working to find ways to reform the federal government at a “historic level,” and that the president has set a goal of identifying $2 trillion in wasted spending before the scheduled dissolution on 2026 Fourth of Independence Day.
