Trump Admin Fires 600 Voice Of America Employees And Puts Organization’s DC Headquarters Up For Sale

The New York Times reports:

The Trump administration on Thursday fired nearly 600 employees at Voice of America, a federally funded news network that provides independent reporting to countries with limited press freedoms.

The layoffs targeted contractors, most of them journalists but also some administrative employees, and amounted to over a third of Voice of America’s staff. They signaled that the Trump administration planned to continue its efforts to dismantle the broadcaster despite a court ruling last month that ordered the federal government to maintain robust news programming at the network, which President Trump has called “the voice of radical America.”

In another sign of the Trump administration’s hostility toward the broadcaster, the federal building in Washington that houses the media organization was put up for sale on Thursday.

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Trump Administration Fires Hundreds of Voice of America Employees – The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/u…

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