Donald Trump has signed an executive order to strip back the global, independent and federally funded news organisation Voice of America.

President Donald Trump is ordering his administration to gut Voice of America and other pro-democracy media organizations run by the U.S. government.

The order targeting the agencies, which include one overseeing government-funded media outlets, appeared to test the bounds of the president’s power.

U.S. President Donald Trump's latest round of cuts to the federal government includes the 83-year-old Voice of America.

(Reuters) -President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at gutting the parent of U.S. government-funded media outlet Voice of America and six other federal agencies, his administration's latest step to shrink bureaucracy.

The president signed two new executive orders, one that repeals several Biden-era labor and environmental policies and another that severely cuts various independent agencies.

All full-time employees with the government-funded Voice of America, the nation's largest international broadcaster, were informed Saturday that they have been placed on administrative leave, multiple sources confirmed to CBS News.

PT: The director of Voice of America said that more than 1,300 journalists, producers and support staff have been placed on administrative leave following Donald Trump’s executive order to dismantle the U.

Every full-time employee at the publicly-funded international broadcaster charged with delivering news from an American perspective was told they would be placed on leave.