United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Senior Advisor Kari Lake has issued reduction-in-force notifications to government worker unions, a source familiar with the situation told The Gateway Pundit.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) were both put on notice this week that mass firings are incoming.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Lake was sworn in as a White House senior advisor to the agency until she can be hired as VOA Director. In an email to USAGM staff upon being sworn in, she notified them that she would be “reforming and modernizing the agency into something the American people are willing to support.”
Lake was chosen by the President to lead the government’s international news network, Voice of America (VOA), after a new USAGM CEO is confirmed by the Senate, which could be a years-long process.
Placing Lake in the USAGM as a White House Advisor with exclusive powers over the entire agency appears to be a masterful way to overstep the appointment process, which is typically started by the USAGM CEO and agreed upon by the International Broadcasting Advisory Board. President Trump’s nominee for USAGM CEO, conservative writer Brent Bozell, is still awaiting Senate Confirmation, and a new bipartisan advisory board needs to be Senate-confirmed before Kari Lake can be approved as the Voice of America head.
The Deep State and far-left unions are probably wishing she were confined to VOA instead of overseeing the entire agency as she currently does.
As we previously predicted, the agency will effectively be “DOGE’d.” Under Lake’s leadership, we can be assured that far-left activism will be taken out of the newsroom, waste will be cut, President Trump’s executive orders will be followed, and taxpayer dollars will be put to good use.
And it’s already happening. Earlier this month, Lake went to work and announced that she was reducing millions in costs, exposing suspicious activity, and eliminating positions at the USAGM, The Gateway Pundit reported. She further issued a letter terminating the federal grant for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which USAGM oversees.
Because of her efforts to do good with taxpayer money and following an executive order from the President aimed at reducing the operations of several agencies, including the USAGM, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty filed a lawsuit. In the lawsuit, they argued that the termination violated federal laws and the U.S. Constitution, which grants Congress exclusive authority over federal spending.
The Gateway Pundit reported this week that U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth obstructed the President and Kari Lake’s efforts to DOGE the agency, saying that attempts to terminate employees of the globalist propaganda stations violated federal laws and the U.S. Constitution.
Lake and the Trump administration are also facing additional lawsuits, including one from six leftist VOA reporters backed by Reporters Without Borders and several labor unions, who are arguing First Amendment violations, in the far left Southern District of New York.
This is a developing story.
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