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+[wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash)<br>WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - The moms and dad agency of Voice of America said on Friday it had released termination  to over 639 more personnel, completing an 85% decrease in workers given that March and efficiently spelling the end of a broadcasting network established to counter Nazi propaganda.<br>[assamjobs.net](http://www.assamjobs.net)
+<br>Kari Lake, [senior advisor](https://www.execafrica.com/about-us/) to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, said the personnel decrease suggested 1,400 positions had actually been gotten rid of as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's agenda to cut staffing at the agency to a statutory minimum.<br>
+<br>"Reduction in Force Termination Notices were sent to 639 workers at USAGM and Voice of America, part of a long-overdue effort to dismantle a puffed up, unaccountable administration," Lake stated in a statement.<br>
+<br>She stated the company had actually been "riddled with dysfunction, predisposition, and waste."<br>
+<br>Lake said the move indicated USAGM now operated near its statutory minimum of 81 staff members. She said 250 [workers](https://www.execafrica.com/about-us/) would stay throughout USAGM, Voice of America, and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, which transfers news into communist-run Cuba. She stated none of OCB's 33 workers had actually been ended.<br>
+<br>The move likely marks an end to VOA, which was founded in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda, operated in nearly 50 [languages](https://www.execafrica.com/recruitment-services/) and reached 360 million people a week, numerous living under authoritarian routines.<br>
+<br>In May, almost 600 VOA specialists were dismissed.<br>
+<br>Some Republicans have implicated VOA and other openly funded media outlets of being biased versus conservatives, and called for them to be shuttered as part of wider efforts to diminish the federal government.<br>
+<br>Another USAGM station, Radio Free Asia, which has actually already been reduced to skeleton staffing, said in a personnel email on Friday that it was executing additional furloughs in its human resources, regulation, reporter security, and research, training & assessment groups.<br>
+<br>Various lawsuit are in train against the USAGM cuts. (Reporting by David Brunnstrom, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)<br>