Voice of America employees sue Trump administration after agency effectively shut down

Employees of the Voice of America (VOA) filed a lawsuit against the administration of President Donald Trump and Kari Lake on Thursday after Trump ordered that the Agency would be dismantled earlier this month.

“In many parts of the world, the key source of objective news has disappeared, and only censorship newspaper media sponsored by countries have been left,” VOA employees claimed in a lawsuit.

Trump signed Executive order in March, which commanded the dismantling of seven government offices, including the United States Agency for Global Media, which is the home company Glas of America (VOA) and Radio Slobodna Europe/Radio Liberty. Trump appointed Lake a special advisor to the United States agency for global media after winning the election.

“The second Trump administration took a chainsaw into an agency as a whole in an attempt to completely close it,” the lawsuit writes, According to Associated Press.

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“Unknown components and functions of the following government entities are eliminated to the maximum in accordance with the applicable law, and such entities will reduce the performance of their legal functions and associated staff with the minimum presence and function required by law,” read the Trump’s executive order.

Lake told employees to “check your E -hast” for more information about the future of their employment in a social network post.

The US Global Media and Lake Agency issued a statement to the public on March 15th, saying that the agency “was not saved.”

“From top to bottom, this agency is a giant rot and the burden of US taxpayer-Rizik national security for this nation-nation-discharge. While there are bright places with staff who are talented and dedicated public servants, this is an exception, not a rule,” the US Global Media Agency a statement for the public specified.

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“What happens to VOA journalists is not just cooling the speech of the first amendment; it is the government’s exclusion of journalism, a previous restraint that kills content before it can be created,” ” She read the lawsuit.

The White House did not immediately return the comment request.

“Tragically, Kari Lake lives in the world of Maga Fantasy, but she makes decisions that have real consequences for hundreds of journalists,” David Seide, lawyer of VOA employees, said, for example.

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Patsy Widakuswara, head of the White House Office in Voa, and Jessica Jerreat, editor of Freedom of Printing in Vo -I, are the prosecutors in the lawsuit.