Kari Lake Confirms Firings of More Than 600 VOA, USAGM Employees

Almost 640 employees at Voice of America and the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) have been fired, according to USAGM senior adviser Kari Lake.

“Today, we took decisive action to effectuate President [Donald] Trump’s agenda to shrink the out-of-control federal bureaucracy,” Lake said in a statement on June 20.