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They’re failing at running an international media organization and now it seems they’re failing at firing us too,” said ...
The Trump administration, led by USAGM senior advisor Kari Lake, has sought to overhaul RFE/RL due to concerns they have become “radical propaganda” machines.
"[T]he Court concludes that judicial intervention is needed to ensure the defendants' compliance with the preliminary injunction," U.S. District Senior Judge Royce C. Lamberth wrote in an order ...
Kari Lake was called out by a judge for "flip-flopping" in court about whether and to what degree the Voice of America is ...
The revelation follows reporting that VOA hired multiple Chinese nationals with ties to state media controlled by the ...
During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on July 15, 2025, Senator Chris Murphy got into an exchange with Trump's ...
President Donald Trump created the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with the aim of slashing wasted government ...
USAGM did not respond to VOA’s request for comment. Earlier this month, Pack said the lawsuit was "without merit" and that all of his and his team's decisions and actions are "correct and lawful." ...
USAGM, with a current budget of about $800 million, is the umbrella organization for taxpayer-funded international broadcasting, including Voice of America.
USAGM in a press release the next day described it as “Pack (effecting) a series of significant and long-overdue actions to keep assurances to restructure the agency, fully in accordance with ...
In a letter Friday, four former USAGM board members, including two former ambassadors, urged to him “protect” the “critical U.S. asset” he inherited “by respecting the firewall ...
War on Trump USAGM Pick Michael Pack Undermines U.S. Battle With China | Opinion Published Jul 13, 2020 at 7:30 AM EDT Updated Jul 13, 2020 at 10:38 AM EDT By Ben Weingarten ...