In March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order firing hundreds of journalists and other employees at the Voice of America, an international multimedia broadcast news service funded by the U.S. government run by the United States Agency for Global Media.
It was part of the Trump administration’s efforts to radically reshape the federal government by eliminating tens of thousands of positions across the government.
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