It’s been more than a year since the Trump administration dismantled Voice of America, the largest U.S. international broadcaster, saying “taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda.” Yet the agency is costing the government millions even as it stopped operations.
Voice of America, one of six entities that fall under the purview of the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), is a digital, web, and mobile media outlet that broadcasts news to over 361 million people globally in 49 languages. In March 2025, President Trump cut the outlet and USAGM’s operations for financial reasons.
