Engel warns new Trump appointee to fire senior officials at VOA agency

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/engel-agency-global-media-firing

Rep. Eliot Engel, [D-left out by Fox] the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Tuesday night warned of an incoming firing spree against senior leadership of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the body that oversees Voice of America (VOA), at the behest of new Trump appointee Michael Pack.

Engel, in a statement, said that the firings would happen Wednesday morning and worried that they would lead to the agency, which provides reliable information to many around the world who otherwise would not have access to it, becoming a "mouthpiece" for President Trump. The VOA employs 982 people and operates on a budget of more than $250 million per year.

"I have learned that Michael Pack, the new CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, intends to force out a number of the agency’s career senior leadership tomorrow morning," Engel said. "My fear is that USAGM’s role as an unbiased news organization is in jeopardy under his leadership. USAGM’s mission is ‘to inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy’—not to be a mouthpiece for the President in the run up to an election."

Moar Panic in DC

[They're] losing their international propaganda machine.

WINNING!

(Full disclosure - I shit the next bread by accident with this- mea maxima culpa)