Kari Lake lays off more than 500 staff at Voice of America parent agency

Kari Lake, the Trump administration official tasked with dismantling the Voice of America, sent termination notices to more than 500 employees at the broadcaster and its parent agency Friday night.

“The U.S. Agency for Global Media initiated what is known as a reduction in force, or RIF, of a large number of its full-time federal employees,” Lake wrote late on Friday, adding that this would “help reduce the federal bureaucracy … and save the American people more of their hard-earned money.”