Several employees of the United States’ funded international news broadcast service were placed on administrative leave this week.
In an executive order signed Friday March 14, President Donald Trump outlined seven federal agencies to be reduced in size, including the United States Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America. The reduction was made to agencies Trump saw as “unnecessary,” the order states.
In an email sent to Agency for Global Media employees, obtained by Reuters and The New York Times, the agency’s human resources director told employees they were being placed on administrative leave with full pay and benefits, until notified otherwise.
