Taxpayers are still paying $1.6 million a week to keep 420 radio staffers out of work

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• The United States Agency for Global Media can’t document 99% of the gear from Voice of America that it dumped in 2025.
• Reported by Fortune and published Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:30:45 UTC.

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