WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - The moms and dad firm of Voice of America stated on Friday it had issued termination notices to over 639 more staff, completing an 85% decline in workers given that March and successfully spelling completion of a broadcasting network established to counter Nazi propaganda.
Kari Lake, senior consultant to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, said the personnel decrease implied 1,400 positions had been eliminated as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's agenda to cut staffing at the company to a statutory minimum.
"Reduction in Force Termination Notices were sent out to 639 workers at USAGM and Voice of America, part of a long-overdue effort to dismantle a bloated, unaccountable bureaucracy," Lake said in a statement.
She said the firm had actually been "riddled with dysfunction, predisposition, and waste."
Lake said the relocation implied USAGM now ran near its statutory minimum of 81 workers. She said 250 employees would stay across USAGM, Voice of America, and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, which transmits news into communist-run Cuba. She said none of OCB's 33 workers had actually been ended.
The move likely marks an end to VOA, which was established in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda, run in nearly 50 languages and reached 360 million individuals a week, lots of living under authoritarian routines.
In May, almost 600 VOA professionals were dismissed.
Some Republicans have accused VOA and other openly moneyed media outlets of being prejudiced against conservatives, and called for them to be shuttered as part of broader efforts to shrink the government.
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Another USAGM station, Radio Free Asia, which has actually already been minimized to staffing, stated in a personnel e-mail on Friday that it was carrying out extra furloughs in its human resources, regulation, reporter security, and research study, training & assessment groups.
Various lawsuit remain in train versus the USAGM cuts. (Reporting by David Brunnstrom, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)
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