MAGA broadcasted Kari Lake mocked employees of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) on Friday, teasing upcoming mass layoffs.
"URGENT: Employees of USAGM please check your email for an urgent message from HR. Have a great weekend," Lake wrote in a publication on X.
URGENT:
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) March 28, 2025
Employees of USAGM please check your email for an urgent message from HR. Have a great weekend🇺🇸
Conservative outlet The Gateway Pundit then reported that Lake issued reduction-in-force notifications to government worker unions. Concretely, it said, the "American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)" were put on notice about incoming mass firings.
Lake's actions will likely be met with legal challenges, as she is already facing different lawsuits over her intention to shut down Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.
On Tuesday both Lake and the Trump administration were slapped with a restraining order after a federal judge ruled that the cancellation of funding for Radio Free Europe is unlawful.
Concretely, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth said that USAGM can't shut down the broadcaster "with one sentence of reasoning offering virtually no explanation" even "if the President have told them so."
Funded by Congress, Voice of America it is protected by a charter that guarantees its product pass muster for journalistic rigor. VOA and its sister networks practice a form of soft diplomacy, telling stories about democracy in countries where press freedom is limited or nonexistent.
The Trump administration, and its allies have been vocal about their opposition to VOA. In an interview with Newsmax earlier this week, Lake described VOA as "like having a rotten fish and trying to find a portion that you can eat."
In this context, a group of VOA journalists sued the administration and Kari Lake for shutting down the media network. The lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of New York, and asked a federal judge to restore the services President Donald Trump shut down in an executive order issued earlier this month.
The journalists say that the government's acts violate their First Amendment rights on free speech grounds and usurp the U.S. Congress's control of the power of the federal purse.
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