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WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - The moms and dad company of Voice of America said on Friday it had notifications to over 639 more personnel, completing an 85% decline in workers because March and effectively spelling the end of a broadcasting network founded to counter Nazi propaganda.
Kari Lake, senior advisor to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, said the personnel reduction meant 1,400 positions had actually been removed as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's agenda to cut staffing at the agency to a statutory minimum.
"Reduction in Force Termination Notices were sent to 639 staff members at USAGM and Voice of America, part of a long-overdue effort to dismantle a puffed up, unaccountable bureaucracy," Lake stated in a statement.
She said the company had actually been "filled with dysfunction, predisposition, and waste."
Lake said the move implied USAGM now ran near its statutory minimum of 81 employees. She said 250 staff members would stay throughout 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 founded in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda, run in nearly 50 languages and reached 360 million people a week, numerous living under authoritarian programs.
In May, nearly 600 VOA professionals were dismissed.
Some Republicans have actually implicated VOA and other openly moneyed media outlets of being biased versus conservatives, and required them to be shuttered as part of broader efforts to diminish the federal government.
Another USAGM station, Radio Free Asia, which has currently been minimized to skeleton staffing, stated in a staff e-mail on Friday that it was implementing extra furloughs in its personnels, regulation, reporter security, and research, training & evaluation teams.
Various court cases remain in train versus the USAGM cuts. (Reporting by David Brunnstrom, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)
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