In setback for Trump, Voice of America employees get return-to-work messages
CNN
About 1,400 Voice of America employees and contractors at its parent agency, the US Agency for Global Media, now have access to their email accounts and other systems again, after Trump loyalist Kari Lake called the agency “unsalvageable.”
Less than two months ago, when the Trump administration turned off the Voice of America’s networks and websites, Kari Lake, a fierce loyalist to President Donald Trump, said the agency is “unsalvageable.” Now, Lake is working on salvaging it, and VOA is about to come back online. “We look forward to working with you all,” Lake wrote in a Friday night memo to the staffers she sidelined back in March. Why the sudden change? A series of federal court rulings against the Trump administration’s silencing of US-funded international broadcasters. About 1,400 VOA employees and contractors at VOA and its parent agency, the US Agency for Global Media, now have access to their email accounts and other systems again, according to a Friday memo from the Justice Department. Staffers will be allowed back to their offices beginning next week, and that’s when VOA programming will resume, the memo stated. The US Agency for Global Media did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.
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