Radio Asia Relieving About 90% of employees and have shut down many language services, citing the inability to continue to pay employees after the Trump administration cuts funds.

“We are in an unreasonable situation,” RFA president and CEO Bay Fang said in a statement. “Because we no longer rely on (the US agency of global media) to make funding as Congress expects, we will have to start mass layoffs and make the entire language service darker next week.”

Last March, President Trump order The United States Global Media Agency (USAGM) is a federal agency that allocates funds to RFA and other government-funded broadcasters to minimize their operations to “reduce unnecessary government entities.”

Since 1996, the RFA has been broadcast to audiences of approximately 60 million listeners in languages ​​such as Myanmar, Cambodia and Mandarin.

It and other broadcasters funded by the U.S. government were established after World War II Attract listeners and readers Living in a society that is considered repressive or authoritarian in the United States and promoting democratic values.

These broadcasters come together arrive There are more than 400 million viewers every week outside the world. Over the past decade, RFA The story breaks During the civil war, the detention campaign of the Eagle ethnic group in China and the ground reporting continued in Myanmar.

"This work is not just a job for me, but many of the RFA members," Fang told NPR Friday. "They are very proud to be part of this team and think it's their lifelong work that can shoot light into the dark corners of the countries we cover," Fang told NPR Friday. "So today is perhaps the hardest of my career."

After Trump’s instructions in March, Lake Trump is a senior Trump adviser who effectively operates Usagm, Stop quickly Grants approved by Congress provide grants to other nonprofit news media funded by the U.S. government, including Radio Europe/Broadcast Freedom and Middle East Broadcast Network (MBN). She also shut down the voice of the United States, which is part of the government.

lake, Former TV anchor WHO Lost Last year, an Arizona Senate game called her now effectively called her “no power.” "It's so bad that rotting. It's like having a rotten fish trying to find a small portion that can be eaten," she explain Usagm in the interview and March news Max.

VOA and CUBA Broadcasting offices run Spanish program, forced pause More than 1,000 employees. RFA invests about three-quarters of its staff during unpaid vacations.

In April, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. ordered the government recover Funding and staff of RFA and MBN say the White House order to remove the broadcaster was "arbitrary and capricious."

But this week, the DC Court of Appeal granted an administrative stay, freezing the court orders of the RFA and MBN.

The next day, on Friday, the RFA officially gave up many employees who had not paid their leave. RFA's curve says that the skeleton crew can still update the RFA's highly-played back programming.