Trump silences Voice of America as staff put on leave

Donald Trump has signed an administrative order to withdraw Voice of America, an independence and federal funding news organization around the world.

The president’s order is targeted to VOA’s parent US media agency (USAGM) and funded to non -profit organizations such as Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia, which was originally founded to cope with communism.

He also asks the head of the agency to “reduce performance with the minimum existence and function required by the law.”

Mike Abramowitz, a VOA director, said almost 1,300 employees had paid leave.

Abramowitz said that the VOA said, “It is especially important when the US anti -US, such as Iran, China and Russia, such as Iran, China and Russia, have trapped billions of dollars to make false stories to distrust the United States.

There was no explanation from the Trump administration and it is not yet clear whether the station was completely closed.

CBS, a news partner of the US BBC, said Crystal Thomas, director of the USAGM human resources, was informed by VOA staff.

One source was told that all freelancer workers and international contractors had no money to pay.

The e -mail gained by CBS informed that the Federal subsidy was terminated to the boss of the free European/radio freedom.

VOAs and other stations under USAGM provide services to more than 400,000 listeners and are widely equal to the BBC World Service, which supports partial funds by the British government.

Elon Musk, an unmanned torture of Trump, who cut the government department, demanded VOA closed using social media platform X.

The US president also cut funds to several federal agencies, including homeless prevention officers, museums and libraries.

Trump was very critical of his first term for VOA. He recently appointed Staunch Loyalist Kari Lake as a special advisor to US global media institutions.

The president regularly says that mainstream media has a prejudice toward him. He called CNN and MSNBC as “corruption” and “illegal” without providing evidence during the speech by the Ministry of Justice.

Voice of America is an obligation to fight Nazi and Japanese propaganda in 1942. The first broadcast, produced by a transmitter loaned to the United States by the BBC, mentioned the appropriate purpose.

Former President Gerald Ford signed a VOA public charter in 1976 to protect editing independence.

By 1994, a broadcasting committee was established with a supervision of non -military broadcasting.

In 2013, the law changed the VOA and its affiliates to start broadcasting in the United States.