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WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Senate voted along party lines Thursday to confirm President Donald Trump’s choice to head the Voice of America and other U.S. government-funded international broadcasters that have been the subject of harsh criticism from the White House.

Despite significant Democratic opposition and concerns over his fitness for the job, the Senate voted 53-38 to confirm Michael Pack to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA and its sister outlets including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Cuba-oriented Radio and Television Marti.

https://nypost.com/2020/06/04/former-hillary-clinton-spokesman-calls-for-defunding-police/

Brian Fallon, former spokesman for Attorney General Eric Holder, called for cutting off funds for police departments in the wake of George Floyd’s death while in custody of Minneapolis police.

“Defund the police,” Fallon, who was part of the Obama administration and former spokesman for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, wrote Wednesday on Twitter.

Floyd’s death on May 25 sparked protests across the country and many of them have turned violent with looting, arson and clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement authorities.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the former Democratic presidential candidate, also weighed in on Twitter.

“Every police department violating people’s civil rights must be stripped of federal funding,” the Vermont independent posted on Thursday.

Richard Grenell, President Trump’s former Director of National Intelligence, blasted Fallon for the tweet.

“This must be widely condemned by the Biden campaign immediately,” Grenell wrote.