For decades, Voice of America (VOA) has been funded by you, the American taxpayer—but instead of promoting American values abroad, it has consistently peddled leftist propaganda dressed up as journalism. Now, President Trump is putting an end to this betrayal. On Friday, Trump signed a bold executive order that will dismantle VOA and other bloated bureaucracies that no longer serve the interests of the American people.
The order specifically targets the United States Agency for Global Media, VOA’s parent agency, along with six other government entities that have become ineffective, wasteful, or ideologically corrupt. According to a senior White House official who spoke to Fox News Digital, “Voice of America has been out of step with America for years. It serves as the voice for Radical America and has pushed divisive propaganda for years now.”
And that assessment is spot on. You, the taxpayer, have been footing the bill for an outlet that has repeatedly undermined American interests and values. Consider VOA’s disgraceful coverage of terrorism: when Hamas brutally attacked innocent Israelis, including children, VOA shamefully sanitized Hamas’s actions, instructing employees to avoid calling the terrorists exactly what they are—terrorists.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast (R-Fla.) nailed it when he told National Review, “American taxpayers should not be paying the salaries of Hamas apologists who spout terrorist propaganda.”
President Trump’s executive order will streamline and eliminate non-essential functions and personnel at these agencies, reducing their statutory roles to the bare minimum required by law. It is a decisive step toward draining the swamp and cutting down bloated bureaucracies that have long abused their taxpayer-funded mandates.
Kari Lake, appointed by Trump as senior advisor at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, minced no words in her announcement to employees, stating unequivocally that the agency “is not salvageable.” She further characterized the agency as “a giant rot and burden to the American taxpayer—a national security risk for this nation—and irretrievably broken.”
This move is about more than just VOA. President Trump understands that the federal government has grown far beyond its intended size and scope—a leviathan that increasingly serves its own interests rather than those of the American people. By dismantling these agencies, Trump is fulfilling his promise to reduce federal overreach, restore accountability, and ensure that your tax dollars are used responsibly and effectively.
It’s not just conservatives who have sounded the alarm about VOA’s bias. A former VOA employee wrote last year in an op-ed for The Washington Times, “I have monitored the agency’s bureaucracy along with many of its reporters and concluded that it has essentially become a hubris-filled rogue operation often reflecting a leftist bias aligned with partisan national media.” He rightly called for the outlet’s dismantling, noting that it has repeatedly skirted accountability for journalistic malpractice and mismanagement.
From downplaying the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in 2020 to publishing woke articles promoting concepts like “white privilege,” VOA has consistently prioritized left-wing social engineering over objective journalism. This is propaganda financed by your hard-earned money—inexcusable and indefensible.
The other agencies targeted in Trump’s executive order—the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, and the Minority Business Development Agency—have similarly drifted from their original missions, becoming vehicles for partisan agendas or redundant functions.
President Trump’s action is not merely symbolic. It sends a clear message that the federal bureaucracy exists to serve Americans—not to work against their values or waste their money. The dismantling of VOA is just the beginning. President Trump is committed to putting America First by restoring accountability, cutting waste, and ending taxpayer-funded propaganda.
