Less than a week after more than 500 contractors were terminated from Voice of America, U.S. Agency for Global Media senior adviser Kari Lake sent Congress a letter detailing her reduction-in-force plan to eliminate most of the roughly 800 full-time employees remaining at the government-funded news outlet.
In her letter sent on Tuesday to Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs chairman James Risch (R-ID), which was obtained and reviewed by The Independent, Lake referenced Donald Trump’s executive order in March that called for the reduction of all “non-statutory components and functions” to be eliminated from the agency, which is the agency that oversees VOA and other state-run media outlets.
