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Biden is firing some top Trump holdovers, but in some cases, his hands may be tied Lisa Rein, Anne Gearan Replay Video UP NEXT President Biden is trying to shake a Trump hangover in the federal government by acting to remove some holdovers and install his own appointees, but a quiet push to salt federal agencies with Trump loyalists is complicating the new president’s effort to turn the page. The Biden team, showing a willingness to cut tenures short, moved quickly last ...

The Biden administration has installed new heads of three federally funded international broadcasters after abruptly firing Donald Trump-appointees at the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

President Joe Biden's administration continues to purge all remnants of President Donald Trump, abruptly firing the former president's allies at three federally funded international broadcasters, including the Voice of America (VOA). The acting...

Along with other sweeping changes on his first full day in office, President Biden moved quickly Thursday to remove officials considered allies of former President Donald Trump within the Voice of America (VOA) news outlet and its parent agency, the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM. 

The heads of three federally funded international broadcasters have been abruptly fired as the Biden administration completes a house-cleaning of Trump-appointed officials at the U.S. Agency for Global Media

Fri, Oct 16th 2020 12:05pm — Mike Masnick Back in July, we wrote about how Trump had appointed a Steve Bannon mentee, Michael Pack, to head the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the organization that oversees a bunch of independent media organizations, including the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, and Middle East Broadcasting. The plan was to turn them into a state-sponsored Breitbart. That process has begun, including the recent attempt to investigate Vo...

Happy prof. news, Im back to cover the WH for @voanews. My reassignment on Jan. 11 after I pushed to question Mike Pompeo on the Capitol riots has been canceled, following the change of leadership in @USAGMgov, incl. VOA Dir. Robert Reilly & Dep. Dir. Elizabeth Robbins. The agency had a chaotic four years under former President Trump ADVERTISEMENT That pushback came to a head earlier this month when some reporters protested the live broadcast of a speech by Pompeo at the outlet’s headquarter...

2021/01/22 12:27 Kelu Chao is the former program director for Voice of America. (Voice of America website photo) Kelu Chao is the former program director for Voice of America. (Voice of America website photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday (Jan. 20) named Kelu Chao (趙克露), a Taiwanese veteran journalist at Voice of America, as acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM). Following the departu...

Joe Bidens moves appeared to be an attempt to stop, what critics said, was the attempted formation of a propaganda machine under former President Donald Trump and his administration, per The Washington Post.

Taiwan News Quick Take Nara to visit for exhibition Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara yesterday said he would visit Taiwan for his first solo exhibition in the nation. “My movements will be restricted for three weeks, but I have to go because I want to be involved in the preparations for the exhibition,” Nara wrote in Japanese on Twitter, a week after the exhibition was announced. Nara was referring to Taiwan’s 14-day quarantine and a seven-day self-health management period, during which peo...