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Democrats and Republicans in Congress want the Voice of America to reinstate Patsy Widakuswara as a White House correspondent.

The White House reporter for Voice of America was abruptly pulled from her beat after trying to question Secretary of State Mike Pompeo following a speech he gave at the government agency this week.

NEW YORK - The White House reporter for Voice of America was abruptly pulled from her beat after trying to question Secretary of State Mike Pompeo following

Voice of America reassigns White House reporter who tried to ask Mike Pompeo a question CNN 1/13/2021 By Nicole Gaouette, Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN © Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool/Getty Images US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo prepares to testify before a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on the State Departments 2021 budget in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. The Voice of America has effectively demoted a reporter who tried to ask questions of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after he delivered a speech praising American fre...

Pompeo Demands Voice of America Promote U.S. as the Greatest Bloomberg 1/12/2021 © Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Mike Pompeo (Bloomberg) -- Secretary of State Michael Pompeo pressed the Voice of America to be less critical of the U.S., delivering a speech that appeared at odds with the news organization’s mandate to maintain editorial independence from the government. Pompeo’s address Monday at the Voice of America headquarters in Washington -- where he said VOA “isn’t the place to give authoritarian regimes in Beijing or Tehran a platform” -- adds to efforts in the wan...