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New Trump EOs Gut Agencies Serving Unhoused People, Libraries and Media Organizations

HeadlineMar 17, 2025

President Trump signed an executive order Friday gutting smaller federal offices including the Minority Business Development Agency, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Also on Trump’s chopping block: the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which funds the overseas broadcasters Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia. For the first time in over eight decades, the Voice of America stopped broadcasting over the weekend, after announcing it would fire nearly all of its 1,300 employees. Trump’s cuts will also silence Radio and TV Martí — broadcasts into Cuba that have historically been used to attempt to overthrow the Cuban government.

Separately, Trump signed an executive order Friday revoking Biden-era rules strengthening tribal sovereignty and self-determination for all 574 federally recognized tribes.

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