But over 500 jobs Voice of america An official of the Trump administration said that international broadcasts funded by the other government would be cut. This step can give a one -month legal challenge to the legal challenge of one month on the fate of the news outlets.
CEO Kari Lake, acting of US agency for global media, announced the latest round of job cuts Social media post Late Friday night.
Lake said in a statement, “We are doing this (lack of force) towards reducing federal bureaucracy, improving agency service and saving American people more than their hard earned money.” “USAGM will continue to fulfill its statutory mission after this RIF – and possibly improve people around the world to work and provide truth that live under deadly communist governments and other tyrannical rule.”
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A federal judge announced a day after blocking the lake a day after Michael Abramovitz was removed as VOA Director.
American District Judge Royce Lamberth gave a separate verdict that the Republican administration had failed to show how it was following its orders to restore VOA operations. His order on Monday gave the administration “one last opportunity, less than an contempt test” to display its compliance. He ordered Lake to sit on 15 September for the agency employees for a statement by lawyers.
On Thursday, Lambartha said Abramovitz could not be removed without the majority approval of the International Broadcasting Advisory Board. Firing would be “clearly contrary to the law”, nominated in the bench by Republican President Ronald Reagan.
Lake posted a statement on social media stating that his agency has launched force, or reduction in RIF, abolishing 532 jobs for full -time government employees. He said that the agency “will continue to fulfill its statutory mission after this RIF- and possibly improve its ability to work.”
He wrote, “I am eager to take additional steps in the coming months to improve the functioning of a very broken agency and make sure that America’s voice is heard abroad, where it matters the most,” she wrote.
A group of agency employees sued to block the elimination of VOA said that the steps of the lake would give their colleagues 30 days until their salary and profit ends.
“We find a continuous attack on our agency,” he said in a statement. “We are ready to hear his statement to hear whether his plan was planned with a rigorous review process that Congress needs. We have not seen any evidence so far.”
In June, retrench notices were sent to more than 600 agency employees. Abramovitz was placed on administrative leave with almost entire VOA employees. They were told that they would be effectively fired on 31 August.
The administration said File a court On Thursday that he planned to send RIF notices to 486 VOA employees and 46 other agency employees, but intended to maintain 158 agency employees and 108 VOA employees. The filing stated that the global media agency had 137 “active employees” and 62 other employees on administrative leave, while VOA had 86 active employees and 512 other administrative holidays.
The broadcast began during World War II funded by the US government, broadcast to provide people with accurate news and information in Germans in German. The Nazis tried to suppress the VOA by jamming their signals and later, the Soviet Union communist leaders and China demanded to silence it during the Cold War. Ayatollah in Iran and the Kim family in North Korea have also demanded to block it.
The mission of VOA is to broadcast reliable, objective news in countries where press freedom is in low supply.
Earlier this year, Youth Kim of Republican Congress of California told CBS “” 60 minutes ” She worries about America Airwaves Seeding Foreign dictators by closing VOA.
“When we are in an information war and we stop broadcasting in those oppressive governments and oppressive societies … then they are not going to hear the truth,” he said.
The agency also has radio free Europe and Asia and Radio Marti, which reports Spanish-language in Cuba. The network, which reach the estimated 427 million people simultaneously, date for the Cold War and are part of a network of organizations funded by the government that are trying to combat American influence and powerism.
