in World News Trump Orders Media Outlet That Has ‘Pushed Divisive Propaganda for Years’ to Be ‘Eliminated to the Maximum Extent’
The Trump administration announced on Friday that the United States Agency for Global Media, the parent entity of Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, would be discontinued.
An executive order from the White House listed the U.S. Agency for Global Media as one of seven government agencies “that the President has determined are unnecessary.”
The non-statutory components of the U.S. Agency for Global media will therefore be “eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.”
The entities will also “reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law.”
A senior White House official told Fox News that “Voice of America has been out of step with America for years.”
“It serves as the Voice for Radical America and has pushed divisive propaganda for years now,” the official added.
Other agencies listed by the executive order included the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, and the Minority Business Development Agency.