Cost Cutters

No more government funded propaganda:

Kari Lake, the Trump administration senior adviser working with those projects, confirmed a massive layoff program at the U.S. Agency for Global Media. The layoffs hit that agency, as well as Voice of America. Hundreds of jobs are being terminated. “This move follows USAGM’s firing of more than 500 contractors last month. It spells the death of 83 years of independent journalism that upholds U.S. ideals of democracy and freedom around the world,” claimed several VOA staff members who went to court to try to keep their salaries. It was a victory for Trump. “When Trump signed an order in March to drastically shrink USAGM and several other federal agencies, the president and his pick to run VOA, Kari Lake, depicted U.S.-funded international broadcasting as biased, bloated and obsolete,” a report from the legacy media claimed. A report at Just the News said Lake confirmed, “USAGM now operates near the statutory minimum; lean and focused. This is a clear example of responsible government—cutting waste, restoring accountability, and delivering on the promise to put American taxpayers first.” Lake continued, “Today, we took decisive action to effectuate President Trump’s agenda to shrink the out-of-control federal bureaucracy.”

Reining in the waste...