A special adviser to the US Agency for World Media (USAGM) announced on Friday that Voice of America (VOA) will finish its contracts with the Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Press.
Voa, the international government media network, is funded by USAGM with former President Joe Biden to request In March 2024, the budget increased for the fiscal year 2025 to support the radio network. In x mail On Friday, Lake announced that USAGM will finish “expensive and unnecessary New Zerew contracts”, adding that some major agreements included “tens of millions of dollars” with AP News, Reuters and Agency France-Press. (Related: Exclusively: Republican delegate requires the vote of the taxpayer that America is funded by “carrying water to the left”)
“Usagm is a news organization funded by American taxpayers for 83 years.” We should not pay the external news companies to tell us what news-the budget of nearly a billion dollars, we must produce news of ourselves. “If this is not possible, the American taxpayer must ask to know the reason.”
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During a meeting with Voa employees on Friday, the employees were said to “stop using wire service materials for their reports.” According to To NewsMax. It is worth noting that the audio, video and text reports are often used to complete the coverage from the sites where there are no correspondents, according to the port.
In an interview with newsmax before the official discounts of the contract, I discussed for you how the agency was finding “a lot of nonsense that the US tax motivation should not pay for.”
“Today, the process of completing the agency contracts with the Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse. This will provide taxpayers for about $ 53 million. The purpose of our agency is to tell the American story. We do not need to use external sources of this responsibility towards anyone else,” Lake books In the X Publishing regarding the interview.
Conflicts between AP and the White House began in February after the media outlet for companies was canceled to reach the press for refusing to call the Gulf of America in its new name. AP filed a lawsuit on February 21 against the White House press secretary Caroline Levitte, Chief of Staff Suzy Wales, and Vice Chief of Staff Taylor Bodwich due to restraining relief.
It was lake right In a special consultant to USAAGM on March 3, she said that she “is looking to serve America and” simplify “the agency. Follow the agency’s discounts pushed President Donald Trump for his second administration to review the waste government spending.
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