Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has begun sending employees of its Prague headquarters on unpaid leave after not receiving U.S. funds for April.
“Our employees and their families are now suffering the consequences while RFE/RL continues to wait for the USAGM to provide congressionally approved funds,” RFE/RL CEO Stephen Capus said in a statement.
RFE/RL’s government funding (and that of its sister company Voice of America) was slashed as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent executive order to reduce the budget of their parent organization, the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), to its statutory minimum after finding evidence of high-level corruption, national security violations, and the promotion of anti-American interests.
The move is in line with efforts by the new U.S. Administration to get rid of foreign aid programmes that were used to spread globalist progressivism abroad and to undermine elected governments not favoured by the liberal elites in Washington.
Last week, a court in Washington suspended the U.S. Administration’s efforts to end funding for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. However, no money has been received by the radio station since then.
As we recently reported, the EU is looking into picking up the tab for RFE/RL.
