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March 17, 2025

New Trump EOs Gut Agencies Serving Unhoused People, Libraries and Media Organizations
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President Trump signed an executive order Friday gutting smaller federal
offices including the Minority Business Development Agency, the U.S.
Interagency Council on Homelessness and the Institute of Museum and
Library Services. Also on Trump's chopping block: the U.S. Agency for
Global Media, which funds the overseas broadcasters Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia. For the first time in over
eight decades, the Voice of America stopped broadcasting over the
weekend, after announcing it would fire nearly all of its 1,300
employees. Trump's cuts will also silence Radio and TV Martí -
broadcasts into Cuba that have historically been used to attempt to
overthrow the Cuban government.

Separately, Trump signed an executive order Friday revoking Biden-era
rules strengthening tribal sovereignty and self-determination for all
574 federally recognized tribes.


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