The statement by the nominee, Sarah B. Rogers, signaled a stark reversal of the president’s earlier efforts to shutter Voice of America and other federally funded news groups.
More than 1,000 VOA employees will remain on administrative leave while the appeals court considers the case
The Trump White House argument to dismantle the Voice of America and other taxpayer-funded news outlets was that they were producing "radical propaganda" and had become wasteful and corrupt.
A federal judge on Saturday voided layoffs at Voice of America (VOA) while also ruling that the U.S. Agency for Global Media's (USAGM) acting CEO, Kari Lake, unlawfully ran the independent federal agency. U.S. District Court of Washington, D.C., Judge Royce Lamberth wrote that Lake oversaw the media agency in violation of the Constitution's appointments clause [...]