Kari Lake, a top Trump ally and senior adviser at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, defended sweeping cuts to the taxpayer-funded news agency that serves nations with restricted press freedom during a tense Capitol Hill hearing Wednesday.
In her first appearance before Congress, Lake defended her leadership and argued that USAGM should be downsized, with the goal of dismantling it entirely.
“Within days, in my role as senior adviser, it became increasingly clear that reform was nearly impossible,” Lake said in her testimony. “The agency was incompetent and mismanaged and deeply corrupt, politically biased, and frankly, a serious threat to our national security.”
Established during World War II with the launch of Voice of America to counter Nazi propaganda, the agency now oversees or funds a
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