Donald Trump wants Kari Lake to run Voice of America. That's not his call. [View all]
President-elect Donald Trump's announcement Wednesday that he wants Kari Lake to run Voice of America was heavy with his usual bombastic nonsense but light on details for how she might actually get the job.
Trump proclaimed Lake as the solution to "lies spread by the Fake News Media." But he doesn't have the power to install her atop that federal agency.
Congress took that power from presidents at the very end of Trump's first term in 2021, overriding his veto of the legislative package that included this reform.
Why was that reform needed? Well Michael Pack, Trump's first-term appointee to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America, served as an agent of partisan chaos and controversy in an agency meant to combat propaganda.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/12/14/trump-kari-lake-voice-of-america-senate-approval/76948806007/
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