Trump Action Archive

Supporting reports

• Appeal filed — Abramowitz v. Lake (D.D.C.) 1:25-cv-00887 — Judge Royce Lamberth granted the Plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction, issuing the order alongside Widakuswara v. Lake to facilitate appellate review. In granting this motion, Judge Lamberth blocked Defendants from dismantling VOA. Defendants appealed this order to the D.C. Circuit on April 24.
• Preliminary injunction ruling — Widakuswara v. Kari Lake (D.D.C.) 1:25-cv-01015 — Judge Lamberth issued an order that granted in part and denied in part Plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction. The memorandum opinion explains the court ordered Defendants to take all necessary steps to return USAGM employees and contractors to their status prior to the EO, restore the grant funding to Radio Free Asia, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks, and restore VOA programming. The motion was denied to the extent it relates to RFE/RL and OTF.
• Federal judge ordered Trump administration to restore Voice of America and other news services — U.S. District Judge Carl Lamberth issued a ruling requiring the Trump administration to restore Voice of America and several other federally funded news services that had been shut down. The court found that VOA is funded by Congress, which mandated it provide news to a global audience, and ruled the administration's attempt to disband it constitutes "a direct affront to the power of the legislative branch." The decision may affect other unilateral agency abolitions undertaken by the administration.