As Kari Lake sought to shutter Voice of America, parent agency rebuffed auditors

The federal media agency that oversees Voice of America, and whose Trump-appointed leadership has been deemed illegal by a judge, failed to cooperate with a required annual audit of its finances, according to a newly released report.

The U.S. Agency for Global Media had consecutively received clean audit reports for 20 years until 2024. But then Kari Lake was named by President Trump to take the helm, vowing to shut down federally funded newsrooms that she accused of being anti-American and “rotten.”

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