The duties of the director of the Global Media Agency, Kari Lake, said that the organization headed by the head decided to release 532 people.
“We carry out these exemptions at the President's order to help reduce federal bureaucracy and save money hardly earned by AmericansY ” – Lake wrote on Platform X.
Donald Trump's administration hits America's voice. Huge wave of layoffs
The global media agency manages, among others In America's voice, who after the election win of Donald Trump was in the crosshairs of the new administration. In March, Politico reported that all employees of the voice of America were removed from their duties.
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“The New York Times” reports that there are about 100 employees, including journalists. About 1.3 thousand lost their jobs from the beginning of the changes introduced by Trump's administration. America's journalists. Paula Hickey, chairwoman of the trade union representing the employees of the voice of America, defined dismissals, and the courts are received by lawsuits related to previous employment reductions.
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America's voice is a sender financed by America, which was founded in 1942 as a counterweight to the propaganda of national socialists. To this day, he is to reach with information from the world to places where there is no free media. The sender created digital, television and radio content in over 40 languages, which distributed to 2.2 thousand. affiliate stations around the world. In Poland, America's voice operated until 2004.
