Kari Lake Isn’t Telling the Truth About the VOA
President Trump recently selected Kari Lake as his top adviser to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America, the country’s biggest international broadcaster. On March 14 she tweeted—and Elon Musk retweeted—a blistering video from USAGM’s new headquarters in Washington. “I’m horrified by some of the things I’m learning about this agency,” she says. “I’m sitting here on the 13th floor of a shiny, brand-new, beautiful skyscraper building that is costing you, the taxpayer, a fortune.” Officials from the Biden administration, she said, had just signed a 15-year lease on this building “that’s going to cost the taxpayer nearly a quarter of a billion dollars.” Shortly after she tweeted, USAGM pulled out of the lease.
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