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Without its congressionally appropriated funds, RFE/RL will also be forced to stop the vast majority of its journalistic work and will be at risk of ceasing to exist as an organization,
In many parts of the world, a crucial source of objective news is gone, and only censored state-sponsored news media is left to fill the void,
the VOA employees argued in the lawsuit The second Trump administration has taken a chainsaw to the agency as a whole in an attempt to shutter it completely,
the lawsuit read, according to the Associated Press Tragically, Kari Lake lives in the MAGA fantasy world, but she makes decisions that have real-world consequences for hundreds of journalists,
David Seide, the VOA employees' attorney, told NPR What is happening to the VOA Journalists is not just the chilling of First Amendment speech; it is a government shutdown of journalism, a prior restraint that kills content before it can be created,
From top-to-bottom this agency is a giant rot and burden to the American taxpayer—a national security risk for this nation—and irretrievably broken. While there are bright spots within the agency with personnel who are talented and dedicated public servants, this is the exception rather than the rule,
the U.S. Agency for Global media's press release said The non-statutory components and functions of the following governmental entities shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law, and such entities shall reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law,
Trump's executive order read
