{"id":12779,"date":"2025-08-31T01:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kari-lake-announces-532-positions-nixed-at-voice-of-america-parent-company\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T01:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:20:44","slug":"kari-lake-announces-532-positions-nixed-at-voice-of-america-parent-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kari-lake-announces-532-positions-nixed-at-voice-of-america-parent-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Kari Lake announces 532 positions nixed at Voice of America, parent company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kari Lake, President Trump&rsquo;s top adviser to the U.S Agency for Global Media (USAGM), announced Friday night that 532 positions were nixed at USAGM and Voice of America. In a post on X, Lake said the layoffs were conducted at President Trump&#8217;s direction &#8220;to help reduce the federal bureaucracy&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/media\/5479113-kari-lake-layoffs-voice-of-america-parent-company\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kari Lake, President Trump&rsquo;s top adviser to the U.S Agency for Global Media (USAGM), announced Friday night that 532 positions were nixed at USAGM and Voice of America. In a post on X, Lake said the layoffs were conducted at President Trump&#8217;s direction &#8220;to help reduce the federal bureaucracy&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}