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Taxpayers are still paying $1.6 million a week to keep 420 radio staffers out of work
The United States Agency for Global Media can’t document 99% of the gear from Voice of America that it dumped in 2025.
It’s been more than a year since the Trump administration dismantled Voice of America, the largest U.S. international broadcaster, saying “taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda”—yet the agency is costing the government millions even as it stopped operations. Voice of America, one of six entities that fall under the purview of the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), is…
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