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Sadik Hossain

‘We are fighting an information war’: Kari Lake guts 1,400 jobs from Trump-hated media agency before Capitol Hill victory lap

Former Arizona candidate and current senior adviser at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), Kari Lake, has eliminated 1,400 positions from the agency ahead of her testimony to Congress on Wednesday.

According to Politico, the massive personnel cut represents an 85 percent reduction from March when President Donald Trump signed an executive order to restructure the agency. According to Lake’s Friday memo, only 250 employees now remain at USAGM, which oversees Voice of America and other international broadcast outlets.

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