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Just as a federal judge issued an order blocking the administration’s efforts to dismantle the broadcaster, U.S. Agency for Global Media staffers received an email offering them a renewed opportunity to sign up for the ‘Fork in the Road’ deferred resignation program

USAGM special adviser Kari Lake mocked agency employees on Friday anticipating mass layoffs

Repressive regimes will fill the information void left by defunded news outlets like Voice of America, say media experts.

Legal experts predicted judges would block Donald Trump's order scaling back the Wilson Center and other congressionally chartered agencies.

Trump also mentioned in the order that DOGE has already identified billions in "waste, fraud, and abuse" from these federal agencies.

Shutdown of US-funded news outlets ends more than 80 years of uncensored news broadcasts in China.

President Donald Trump's decision to freeze US-funded media outlets, including Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe, risks "benefitting adversaries", the EU has said. Meanwhile, countries like China and Cambodia praised the move, accusing the outlets of "biased" reporting and "fake news".

Chinese state media hails US president’s order to strip back government funding to news organisations he deems ‘radical’

‘A silencing of VOA will be celebrated by communists, autocrats and ayatollahs whose lies we shed light on,’ VOA Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb tweeted over the weekend