https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/29\/judge-pauses-cuts-to-us-agency-for-global-media-00586081<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“A federal judge has paused the Trump administration\u2019s plan to lay off more than 500 employees of the U.S. Agency for Global Media \u2014 most from Voice of America \u2014 while warning that senior officials there had repeatedly failed to comply with his orders to preserve the international broadcaster\u2019s key operations.”<\/p>\n
The Trump administration is defying the courts. <\/p>\n
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