Judge Royce Lamberth blocked the plan to lay off staff, determining the effort to cut the government-funded media was ‘arbitrary and capricious’
A US federal judge temporarily blocked a move by President Donald Trump’s administration to lay off more than 500 Voice of America employees, according to a court order on Monday.
Kari Lake, a senior adviser to the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), has spearheaded Trump’s effort to gut government-funded media, despite legal disputes and criticism that US adversaries will benefit.
Hundreds of employees received termination notices in June, following a Trump order that froze the outlet for the first time since it was founded in 1942.
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