Federal judge in Washington, DC, He temporarily blocked the exclusion of radio networks funded by the US.
US District Judge Royce Royce Lamberth, appointed former President Ronald Reagan, approved a temporary abstain order after extinguishing radio free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), a non-profit newspaper organization that the central intelligence agency was based on the 1950s behind Iron Cuntain during the Cold War.
Congress later began financed by RFE/RL in the 1970s to promote democracy around the world.
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Referee Found Lake Kari, The longtime emiter of Arizona and the unsuccessful candidate for the gubernator and the Senate eavesdropped on the supervision of the US Global Media Agency, probably violated the Federal Law in the transfer to RFE/RFL’s financing with the daily order of President Donald Trump to remove Government waste.
The US Global Media Agency contains Radio Free Europe and Asia, as well as the Voice of America and Radio Marta in Cuba.
“RFE/RL has been active for decades as one of the organizations that Congress has been legally appointed to implement this policy,” Lamberth wrote. “The guidance of the USAGM cannot, with one said reasoning that offer almost no explanation, force Rfe/rl to shut down – even if the president told them to do so.”
Trump has signed an executive order earlier this month, aimed at dismantling media organizations financed by the US. The Senior White House official, Fox News Digital, said at the time that America’s voice “has been in step with America for years.”
Logotype Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), shown at its headquarters in Prague, was seen on March 21, 2025. (Thomas Tkacik/Sopa Pictures/Lightctics via Getty Images)
“It serves as the voice of radical America and pushed it equal propaganda For years, “the official said.
The executive order, which targets seven offices, including the US Global Media Agency, said that “non-statutory components and functions of the following government entities will be eliminated to the maximum measure in accordance with the applicable law, and such entities will reduce the performance of their legal functions and related staff to the minimum presence and function of the law.”
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RFE/RFL sued in a federal court, saying that the administration immediately frozen almost $ 7.5 million funding already appropriated by Congress. AND Ministry of Justice On Monday, he wrote in court documents that payment was underway and proof of payment had occurred on Wednesday.
The voice director of America Michael Abramowitz wrote on Xu that he was “almost” the entire staff of 1300 people placed on leave.
Kari Lake, the election of President Donald Trump to lead the voice of America (VOA), speaks at a conference of conservative political action (CPAC) on February 21, 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
At a court hearing on Monday, lawyer of the Ministry of Justice Abby Stout claimed that RFE/RL had no reason to limit the order given that the US government would pay almost $ 7.5 million. The prosecutor’s lawyer, Thomas Brugato, said that payment was only a temporary repair and that a non -profit organization could expect broad release and close by April if the financing was not continued.
“It’s a truly band-based band,” Brugato said in court, according Hill.
In his order, Lamberth said that the RFE/RL “originally conceived in the 1950s as a means of providing reliable, locally relevant news to the audience subject to communist propaganda.”
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“Since its inception, RFE/RL has continued to expand, responding to the threats of democracy and the freedom of the media around the world,” the judge wrote, later concluding, “concludes the court, in accordance with the long -standing determination of Congress, that the continuation of RFE/RL’s work in public interest.”
Separately, the Voice of America journalists launched on Friday, journalists without borders and a few unions at the US District Court in New York against the US Global Media and Kari Lake Agency for effort to close them.
Fox News’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.
