More than 1,300 staff including journalists and producers have been put on administrative leave.

The job cuts are rooted in an Executive Order signed by President Trump on Friday that requires USAGM and other organizations to reduce their activities and employee count. This article, Layoffs hit 1,

Over 1,000 journalists and staffers were laid off from U.S.-funded broadcast networks, including Voice Of America, as part of President Trump’s latest decree. All full-time employees at these networks showed up to work on March 15 to find out that their jobs no longer existed.