Elon Musk may be gone, but, the principles of DOGE continue. Which has driven the NY Times into a frothing lather
Trump Administration Fires Hundreds of Voice of America Employees
The Trump administration on Thursday fired nearly 600 employees at Voice of America, a federally funded news network that provides independent reporting to countries with limited press freedoms.
The layoffs targeted contractors, most of them journalists but also some administrative employees, and amounted to over a third of Voice of America’s staff. They signaled that the Trump administration planned to continue its efforts to dismantle the broadcaster despite a court ruling last month that ordered the federal government to maintain robust news programming at the network, which President Trump has called “the voice of radical America.”
Well, the actual government employees, instead of the contractors, can continue their “robust news programming.” Do more with less. It’s not like half their news articles do not look like what you see in the hard left outlets, right? There’s literally nothing on the website that can’t be found on tons of websites.
In another sign of the Trump administration’s hostility toward the broadcaster, the federal building in Washington that houses the media organization was put up for sale on Thursday.
LOL
Michael Abramowitz, the director of Voice of America, said in an email to his staff on Thursday that the firings were “inexplicable.”
Kari Lake, a senior adviser at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America, said that the Trump administration had acted within its legal authority.
“We are in the process of rightsizing the agency and reducing the federal bureaucracy to meet administration priorities,” Ms. Lake, who is leading the efforts to ramp down the operations of Voice of America, said in a statement. “We will continue to scale back the bloat at U.S.A.G.M. and make an archaic dinosaur into something worthy of being funded by hardworking Americans.”
And she said more is to come. English news has pretty much stopped since March, but, there is a little. There is a boatload of Chinese and Arabic language news, but, do we know what it says? Is it helping the US point of view?
Mr. Trump has accused the outlet, which delivers news to countries with repressive regimes — including Russia, China and Iran — of spreading “anti-American” and partisan “propaganda.”
VOA doesn’t help America, hence, it’s unnecessary. And most of the contractors are in the US on work visas, so, they have to leave by June. Why is it necessary for them to be here? They could write elsewhere. It’s VOA’s fault for going rogue. They created the problem.
The Voice of America Budget is $269 MILLION a year. Hardly more than Big Donnie’s golf allowance per year (from the taxpayers). Why does he hate the VOA? Because they tell the truth. It’s why Big Donnie hates all media that he can’t control and micromanage. He’s a dictator
To refurbish Big Donnie’s “free” gold plated Qatari “Sky Palace” will cost about $1,000 MILLION!! And he plans to take the plane with him* when, if ever, he leaves office!!
Which corrupt tRump family crony will “win” that bid?
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* In fact, it’s unlikely that the corrupt Big Dumbass can get the plane re-outfitted to Air Force One standards by the end of this term so it’s also unlikely he’ll start, since it would have to be de-commissioned before he could use it as a civilian. It’s a scam to get him a luxury airplane.
“conservatives” in the House just shit canned the Donny approved budget bill.
Apparently “conservatives” considered the 4,000,000,000,000,000 increase in the US debt to be too much
Trump is THE KING OF DEBT!
The internet has made the big international shortwave broadcasters obsolete. Why expend hundreds of KW of electricity beaming RF across the globe when you can stream it? It’s a bit sad in a way… it used to be cool to pick up stuff from around the world. I remember listening to Australia from the midwest before dawn when most of the signal path was night… oh well, time marches on.
Only a third? I was in the VOA building last month in DC. It is vacant. Employees were escorted inside in small groups to retrieve personal items. The number still working must be their foreign staff.
Note: VOA, and its 5 similar media outlets, is run by the US government. It is a part of the executive branch and this totally at the whims of the current elected leader of that branch. If the president told VOA to start non-stop stories about how dogs have souls but cats don’t, THEY WOULD DO IT. Their chartered purpose is to disiminate us government approved messages to foreign mations. ANY MESSAGE. There are 4 other agencies with the same mission. None of them have the goal of telling the truth. If they do tell the truth, it is accidental.