Voice of America staff put on leave, Trump ally says agency 'not salvageable' Reuters By Nathan Layne and James Oliphant More than 1,300 Voice of America employees were placed on leave on Saturday and funding for two U.S. news services that broadcast to authoritarian regimes was terminated, one day after President Donald Trump ordered the gutting of the government-funded media outlet's parent and six other federal agencies. Michael Abramowitz, Voice of America's director, said nearly his entire staff of 1,300 journalists, producers and assistants had been put on administrative leave, crippling a media broadcaster that operates in almost 50 languages. "I am deeply saddened that for the first time in 83 years, the storied Voice of America is being silenced," Abramowitz said in a post on LinkedIn, saying it has played an important role "in the fight for freedom and democracy around the world." VOA's parent agency, the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), also terminated its grants to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which broadcasts to countries in Eastern Europe, including Russia and Ukraine, as well as to Radio Free Asia, which broadcasts to China and North Korea. Trump's directives look set to devastate an organization that serves as a rare source of reliable news in authoritarian countries. Founded in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda, VOA now reaches 360 million people a week. As a group, USAGM employs roughly 3,500 workers with an $886-million budget in 2024, according to its latest report to Congress. VOA's Seoul Bureau Chief William Gallo said on Sunday he had been locked out of all company systems and accounts. "All I've ever wanted to do is shoot straight and tell the truth, no matter what government I was covering. If that's a threat to anyone, so be it," he said on Bluesky. Kari Lake, the former news anchor and Trump loyalist nominated to be director of VOA, issued a statement describing USAGM as "a giant rot and burden to the American taxpayer" and said it was "not salvageable." Lake, referring to herself as a USAGM senior adviser, said she would shrink the agency to its minimum possible size under the law. On its website, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty notes that it has been declared an "undesirable organization" by the Russian government and warns readers in Russia and Russia-occupied Ukraine that they could "face fines or imprisonment" for liking or sharing its content. Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said Radio Free Europe had been a "beacon" for populations under totalitarian rule. "From Belarus to Iran, from Russia to Afghanistan, RFE and Voice of America are among the few free sources for people living without freedom," he wrote on X. The move follows Trump signing an executive order on Friday instructing USAGM and six other little-known agencies to reduce their operations to the minimum mandated by statutes, saying it was necessary to shrink bureaucracy. FREE PRESS ADVOCATES CRITICAL The president of the National Press Club in Washington, Mike Balsamo, released a statement saying the cuts at VOA undermined America's commitment to a free and independent press. "For decades, Voice of America has delivered fact-based, independent journalism to audiences worldwide, often in places where press freedom does not exist," Balsamo said. Paris-based Reporters Without Borders also blasted the move, saying it "threatens press freedom worldwide and negates 80 years of American history in supporting a free flow of information." Radio Free Asia's (RFA) president, Bay Fang, said the cancellation of its funding was "a reward to dictators and despots, including the Chinese Communist Party, who would like nothing better than to have their influence go unchecked." Some Republicans have accused VOA and other publicly funded media outlets of being biased against conservatives, and have called for them to be shuttered as part of the efforts by tech billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency to shrink the government. So far, Musk's DOGE has cut more than 100,000 jobs across the 2.3 million-member federal civilian workforce, frozen foreign aid and cancelled thousands of programs and contracts. On Saturday, Musk made light of the cuts to USAGM. "While winding down this global government propaganda agency, it has temporarily been renamed the Department of Propaganda Everywhere (DOPE)," he wrote on X. In addition to USAGM, Trump's order also targeted the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, and the Minority Business Development Agency for cuts that would limit them to "the minimum presence and function required by law." In a statement, the White House said his executive orders "will ensure that taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda," before listing various criticisms of VOA, including allegations of left-wing bias.
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不奇怪，这个dukenyc125一直是以假新闻，谣言作为信息来源，脑子不好分辨不清。我也曾指出过过她断章取义的谣言，现在都司空见惯懒得理了，直接当谣言。
世界少了些搅屎棍，多了些平和。大好事。
喜闻乐见 全是轮子和川粉
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谁还听 美国之音？？
社交媒体时代，谁还听这些东西？
这种机构的存在，就是完全的浪费钱
骂川普归骂川普，
但是还是动动脑子，一些事情是基本常识
是的
不然钱哪里来？？
现在还有谁听这些电台？本来就是赔本买卖，早该停了。
这种媒体少一些，是大好事。中国和华人都受益，美国也少浪费些钱。
视频节目也有，youtube上也有一些中文节目，不涉及反中不愿意屁股歪时，其实质量，原创性，比普通的大V好很多。
比如本版红人王志安，二爷，王剑，文昭什么的，这些人背后团队一般几个人，顶多10个人，而且一般是中国人，一般是国内的中国人，还要同时做很多方向，其方向性，质量，原创性都很差，根本不可能太深入。这些人的节目，其实都是人云亦云的总结。
停的好
但感觉应该是暂时的 反中舆论宣传，美国应该不会放弃的，以后可能就直接在国务院框架下直接执行了
王志安还稍微好一些 ，另外几个就别提了，恶心。
神韵不拿任何政府的钱。
他需要什么勇气？
总统的权利让他变成了疯子，他就是在街上杀人都没有问题，他现在可以干任何事情没有什么后果，需要什么勇气？
到时候给自己一个豁免就好了。
同意 就看看点出来这些东西也配叫“媒体” 个顶个的纯浪费钱说垃圾话
你不知道么？我当年收听自由亚洲电台和美国之音，自己要买高档短波收音机的。另外这些节目是不可以对美国境内听众播放的。都是美国政府资助的。
对大陆有多少好处不知道，对台湾人来说肯定是减少就业了。
而且频率还会变，和谍报战一样，在固定的节目时间，打开短波收音机，一个个频道慢慢扫描。。
当年听美国之音代表接受新信息，新思想，多少人主动接受洗脑啊。
自由亚洲电台的变态辣椒，美国之音的龚小夏都是极端川粉，天天在推上骂主党舔老川，这次求仁得仁
我不是穿粉。但是穿穿这事做对了。双手赞👍
这些垃圾媒体早该关了。内容及其无聊低级，反正挺共也好反共也罢都是一帮骗子。两面骗钱而已。
看到这种新闻川粉要挣扎一下，到底是舔还是不舔
来，这位冬狗夏狐请你开舔。。。我们围观就好😆
USAID 支付了不知道多少钱， 用来对别的国家输出革命用的，这些停了难道不是大好事？
怎么没有，很多民运人士都扎堆儿的
不一定。大纪元财务问题涉及在加密货币市场低价购买疫情时期小商业公司补贴诈骗经费。
你说的让人迷惑，
都是納稅人的錢在養, 隨著自媒體是大勢所趨,這些都要退出了.
握爪啊，当年短波收音机听了不少美国之音和自由亚洲，还有BBC的world service。我们的青春脑瓜子被我党洗完再被美帝洗，现在人到中年，谁都不信了🤣
好像美国之音一年经费十亿美金，纯属浪费
还往自由亚洲电台的日本东京信箱投过信，也是为啥一心要到美国来的动力
现在想一下有点怪怪的经历
让中国给接着养着他们把，来宣传CCP如何好，精分下哈哈哈
对，早该停了，拿了纳税人的钱去造谣生事，不如用这些钱去修铁路，公路，电网。
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More than 1,300 Voice of America employees were placed on leave on Saturday and funding for two U.S. news services that broadcast to authoritarian regimes was terminated, one day after President Donald Trump ordered the gutting of the government-funded media outlet's parent and six other federal agencies.
Michael Abramowitz, Voice of America's director, said nearly his entire staff of 1,300 journalists, producers and assistants had been put on administrative leave, crippling a media broadcaster that operates in almost 50 languages.
"I am deeply saddened that for the first time in 83 years, the storied Voice of America is being silenced," Abramowitz said in a post on LinkedIn, saying it has played an important role "in the fight for freedom and democracy around the world."
VOA's parent agency, the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), also terminated its grants to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which broadcasts to countries in Eastern Europe, including Russia and Ukraine, as well as to Radio Free Asia, which broadcasts to China and North Korea.
Trump's directives look set to devastate an organization that serves as a rare source of reliable news in authoritarian countries.
Founded in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda, VOA now reaches 360 million people a week. As a group, USAGM employs roughly 3,500 workers with an $886-million budget in 2024, according to its latest report to Congress.
VOA's Seoul Bureau Chief William Gallo said on Sunday he had been locked out of all company systems and accounts.
"All I've ever wanted to do is shoot straight and tell the truth, no matter what government I was covering. If that's a threat to anyone, so be it," he said on Bluesky.
Kari Lake, the former news anchor and Trump loyalist nominated to be director of VOA, issued a statement describing USAGM as "a giant rot and burden to the American taxpayer" and said it was "not salvageable." Lake, referring to herself as a USAGM senior adviser, said she would shrink the agency to its minimum possible size under the law.
On its website, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty notes that it has been declared an "undesirable organization" by the Russian government and warns readers in Russia and Russia-occupied Ukraine that they could "face fines or imprisonment" for liking or sharing its content.
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said Radio Free Europe had been a "beacon" for populations under totalitarian rule.
"From Belarus to Iran, from Russia to Afghanistan, RFE and Voice of America are among the few free sources for people living without freedom," he wrote on X.
The move follows Trump signing an executive order on Friday instructing USAGM and six other little-known agencies to reduce their operations to the minimum mandated by statutes, saying it was necessary to shrink bureaucracy.
FREE PRESS ADVOCATES CRITICAL
The president of the National Press Club in Washington, Mike Balsamo, released a statement saying the cuts at VOA undermined America's commitment to a free and independent press.
"For decades, Voice of America has delivered fact-based, independent journalism to audiences worldwide, often in places where press freedom does not exist," Balsamo said.
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders also blasted the move, saying it "threatens press freedom worldwide and negates 80 years of American history in supporting a free flow of information."
Radio Free Asia's (RFA) president, Bay Fang, said the cancellation of its funding was "a reward to dictators and despots, including the Chinese Communist Party, who would like nothing better than to have their influence go unchecked."
Some Republicans have accused VOA and other publicly funded media outlets of being biased against conservatives, and have called for them to be shuttered as part of the efforts by tech billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency to shrink the government.
So far, Musk's DOGE has cut more than 100,000 jobs across the 2.3 million-member federal civilian workforce, frozen foreign aid and cancelled thousands of programs and contracts. On Saturday, Musk made light of the cuts to USAGM.
"While winding down this global government propaganda agency, it has temporarily been renamed the Department of Propaganda Everywhere (DOPE)," he wrote on X.
In addition to USAGM, Trump's order also targeted the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, and the Minority Business Development Agency for cuts that would limit them to "the minimum presence and function required by law."
In a statement, the White House said his executive orders "will ensure that taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda," before listing various criticisms of VOA, including allegations of left-wing bias.
王丹陈小平等逗逼，的确跟川粉的弱智程度吻合
海外独轮运本已没什么气息，川普政府此举对这帮鸟人也是最新一大打击， VOA 存在好歹还有个似乎正规上镜发声的平台，这下好了只能在油管反中反共了
Voa bbc这种洗不了中国人的脑，因为中国人自己生活在那儿，知道啥是事实。但是可以洗其他地区的脑，把中国说成邪恶的地方
这些东西对土共也没啥伤害，无非是有点点恶心罢了
你这逢川必反的造谣就不好了。
龚是本来是民主党铁杆，后来在里面看清了真实面孔，离开后还跟美国之音打了官司，获得了赔偿。
像这种醒悟过来的人不要太多了。
同意，造成了自己夜郎自大，不思进取，还以为全世界都还在用油灯赶牛车的情形。而且现在自有媒体发达，这些蓄意抹黑的伎俩洗其他地区的脑，让那些地区自我感觉良好的作用也在下降了。早就该关。
你们这么快开除她的川粉籍，是不是太不仗义了？
现在看看谁在造谣？
她是川粉，人人皆知吧。
说你造谣是说，“美国之音的龚小夏balabala”，别人都已经跟美国之音（民主党）决裂并对簿公堂了，你这。。。
逢川必反，是你的自由，且nobody cares，但是造谣就是关于你的品质和本性了。。。
美国之音抹黑的力度用得过猛了，双标过头了，擦亮了中国人民的眼睛。所以网民的跟帖都是对美国之音的冷嘲热讽。
对不起，拉黑了
呵呵，这些媒体里面的主编，工作人员，很多川粉，为川普的镀金时代做贡献，得偿所愿！
这个支持马斯克。神烦美国之音的一群川粉。
把你也拉黑了，早看你不顺眼了。 没觉得对不起。
建议批准老川火线加入中国共产党
是的，川粉窝儿，如今落得这光景，真让人唏嘘感慨。
这事上，你看有一个人反对吗？川粉觉得好，确实联邦赤字问题很大，养这些废物机构没啥用。川黑也觉得好，都是幸灾乐祸，因为这些机构里多是川粉，一窝一窝的，给川普摇旗呐喊的，结果直接被川普炒鱿鱼了。
那是你不了解。这些机构里面历来几乎都是民主党的基本盘。
可能其他族裔语种的机构是，但中文部可是大川粉窝。