More than 500 jobs at the and other government-funded international broadcasters will be cut, a Trump administration official said. The move could ratchet up a monthslong legal challenge over the news outlets' fate.

Kari Lake, acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, announced the latest round of job cuts in a late Friday.

"We are conducting this (reduction in force) at the President's direction to help reduce the federal bureaucracy, improve agency service and save the American people more of their hard-earned money," Lake said in a statement. "USAGM will continue to fulfill its statutory mission after this RIF – and will likely improve its ability to function and provide the truth to people across the world who live under murderous Communist governments and other tyrannical regi

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