Journalists "Radio Liberty" and "Voice of America" canceled the subscription to the largest international information agencies Reuters, AP and AFP
Carey Lake, senior adviser to the Trump administration on the US agency for global media (USAGM), announced the abolition of expensive and, in her opinion, unnecessary contracts with news agencies, including multimillion-dollar agreements with Associated Press, Reuters and Agency France-Presse. Lake emphasized that USAGM, financed by American taxpayers, with a budget of almost a billion dollars should independently produce news, and not rely on third -party companies.