Judge orders Trump administration to explain why order to restore Voice of America wasn’t followed
On Wednesday, a federal judge accused Trump of the US administration of explicitly explaining what he was doing with the operation operated by the government that provides news to other countries.
The Columbia Region US regional judge Royce Lamberth gave the administration until August 13 to explain how VOA will work. II. The exit, which was based on World War II, has been largely dark since March.
Lamberth said that the administration should show what he was doing with the 260 million dollar congress allocated for VOA’s operations this year.
Consultant Kari Lake, who was appointed by Trump to carry out government news agencies, said 85% of the employees in VOA in June and the US Global Media Agency lost their jobs. He said, “A long -term effort to dismantle an inflated, uncalled bureaucracy,” he said.
Lamberth said that there is a process to eliminate the financing previously allocated – Congress should vote as to NPR and PBS financing soon. But that didn’t happen here, dedi he said.
He scolded the management for providing “Cagey Answers ve and skipped important information when requested in the previous court decisions.
“The Court concluded that the court has tried to consume the time in the financial year without putting the Congress Congress without making a paragraph without making a statement, without making a description of the Congress,” Lamberth wrote. “The legal term for this is ‘waste’.
There was no immediate comment from the White House.
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