Steve HermanKari Lake, who a federal judge ruled illegally seized control of VOA’s parent agency, announces she will remain as USAGM’s “deputy CEO” and Deputy Secretary of State Michael Rigas will become “acting CEO.”
Rigas would step aside as acting head of USAGM if the president’s nominee is confirmed by the Senate, likely to be Sarah Rogers, the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy, who is best known for her claim that the Biden administration tried “to make the maps more gay.”
Jerry Meyer“There is no way you can just flip a switch tomorrow and Voice of America is magically going to come back. It is a Potemkin village compared to what it used to be.” https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook-remaking-government/2026/03/12/like-humpty-dumpty-it-wont-be-easy-to-put-voa-back-together-again-00826283
Paul_IPv6once again, we see that it takes so much less time and effort to destroy than to create.
fingers crossed they are able to get back to what they were.