Washington Post: “Late Friday, Trump issued an executive order that directed VOA and an array of federal offices to ‘be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.’ About 1,000 journalists were placed on indefinite leave. Those who showed up to work to broadcast their programs were locked out of the building.
”“It wasn’t exactly what Kari Lake was planning. The onetime candidate for Arizona governor and U.S. Senate whom Trump tapped to lead VOA had, like other MAGA loyalists, eagerly sought a role in the new administration…”
“But the rapid pace of events in recent days shows that Trump’s campaign to dismantle the federal bureaucracy and control U.S.-backed news content across the globe has effectively gutted VOA, potentially forcing it to go dark for the first time since it launched during World War II.”
Axios: Trump guts government-funded media outlets.