Under the law, I can only be removed from my position as director of VOA with the approval of the International Broadcasting ...

The U.S. Agency for Global Media has dismissed Voice of America's Director Michael Abramowitz for failing to accept demotion, ...

The move comes a week after Michael Abramowitz said his lawyers were challenging a "plainly illegal' attempt to force him out ...

The stakes were sharpened Monday when Michael Abramowitz, the director of the government-funded international broadcaster, ...

"[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 ...

The U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) was also dismantled, leaving only Chinese state media broadcasts in many Asian countries such as Indonesia, the biggest economy in Southeast Asia.

“The USAGM put VOA employees, including Director Michael Abramowitz, on administrative leave,” the law firm noted in its summary. “Abramowitz and others quickly filed suit and obtained a temporary ...

During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on July 15, 2025, Senator Chris Murphy got into an exchange with Trump's U.N. ambassador nominee Mike Waltz over the administration's gutting of ...

Kari Lake, the Arizona Republican politician tasked with overseeing the Trump administration’s dismantling of Voice of America, has taken new steps to consolidate power at the agency.

Murphy raised concerns about the Trump administration's impact on U.S. counter-propaganda efforts, citing the dismantling of USAGM and related agencies, which he argued weakened U.S. national ...

The USAGM is an independent government agency that oversees several US-funded broadcasters, which together distribute news and information in almost 50 languages to some 361 million people each week.

Senate Democrats say President Donald Trump's policies are weakening America’s ability to compete with China. In a report released Monday, they criticize foreign aid cuts, tariffs on allies and ...