Trump Admin Defies Order To Fund Radio Free Europe

The New York Times reports:

The Trump administration has failed to disburse congressionally approved funding for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the news network originally set up to counter Soviet propaganda during the Cold War, despite a judge’s order to keep it operating. The news group, known as RFE/RL, has not received nearly $12 million for its April funding from the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the federal entity overseeing it.

Kari Lake, a Trump-appointed special adviser at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, said in a statement on Thursday that the administration had not disbursed the funding in an effort to increase oversight and ensure accountability. “Like other agencies, U.S.A.G.M. has uncovered notable waste, fraud and abuse among its grantees,” she said, without providing any evidence.

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