Trump ordered the liquidation of seven agencies, including the Maternal company Voice of America

US President Donald Trump signed a new law that maximally reduces the functions and number of employees of several departments, explaining this by the fight against the bureaucracy. The corresponding document published the White House.

The US Government Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which controls Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty and Voice of America, was called.

In addition to the USAGM, the list includes the Woodro Wilson Center, the Federal Mediation and Reconciliation Service, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (supports museums and libraries in the United States), the Interdepartmental Council on the problems of homeless, the Fund for Financial Institutes of Development, the Minority Development Agency and the Arctic Research Commission.

Within the framework of the law, the organization will have to submit a report on the functions of its units in a week.

Like many other steps of Trump, this order seems to check the boundaries of his powers, writes The New York Times, noting that the parent company of the Voice of America, by decision of Congress, is an independent agency and in 2020 the Congress adopted the law designed to limit the power of the agency appointed by the president.

In February, the head of DOGE , the USA, American entrepreneur Ilon Musk called on to close “Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty” and “Voice of America”, saying that radical left -handed crazy people who talk to themselves work there.

On the eve of the senior adviser to the Trump administration on USAGM issues, Kari Lake announced the abolition of expensive and, in her opinion, unnecessary contracts with news agencies, including multimillion-dollar agreements with the Associated Press, Reuters and Ageence France-Presse.

Sources in the international non -profit broadcasting organization Radio Liberty, which is financed by USAGM, told The Inisider that the holding would remain after the end of contracts without access to information tapes and direct video broadcasts of the world's largest information agencies, which were used in the television programs translated into Russian. Now in the holding they decide what and how to replace this content.

Radio Liberty and Voice of America together reported a billion of views on all resources by readers from countries with dictatorial authoritarian regimes.

Previously, Donald Trump excluded the Associated Press news agency from the journalistic pool of the White House for refusing to rename the Mexican Gulf in the Gulf of America in accordance with the decision of the White House. AP is trying to challenge his exception in court, but so far unsuccessfully.