“RFE / RL (Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty) has filed a lawsuit with the Federal Court in Washington against Donald Trump and Kari Lake by the decision to stop the organization.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: The Hill
Details: The lawsuit states that the refusal to allocate funds approved by Congress is contrary to federal law, in particular the US Constitution, which gives Congress an exclusive right to dispose of budget expenditures.
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“To allocate funds in accordance with the laws on appropriation and to provide them in the form of grants, as provided by the Law on International Broadcasting is not a voluntary choice that the agency can make. This is the law,” the claim says.
RFE/RL CEO Stephen Kapus emphasized that the stop of broadcasting of this media, founded in 1949, was all this time the dream of dictators in different parts of the world.
“Now is not the time to give way to propaganda and censorship to the enemies of America. We believe that the law is on our side and that the celebration of despots around the world of our death is premature,” Kapus said.
Radio Liberty reported that if the funding is not restored, the company will be forced to release some of the employees. Currently, the radio station publishes content in 27 languages and covers more than 47 million people in 23 European and Asia.
Federal financing stops have learned from a letter signed by the Lake, which is the US Agency for Global Media – a government funding organization with a budget funding, which is subordinate to Voice of America, Radio Liberty Network, etc.
Prehistory:
- Last week, US President Donald Trump signed a decree on the liquidation of the US Agency from Global Media (USAGM), which is funded by Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty and Voice of America (VOA).
- The EU’s main diplomat, Kai Callas, has said that the EU has not been able to automatically take over Radio Liberty funding, but has to study the situation and understand how the project can help.
- Earlier in Brussels, commenting on the decision of the Trump administration to stop the funding “Radio Liberty” and the actual stop of speech “Voice of America”, they said it would play with common enemies.