A federal judge issued a temporary order on Tuesday to prevent US President Donald Trump, to cancel the subsidy funds received by the US station for the exterior ‘Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’ (RFE/RL).
Judge Royce C. Lamberth, from the Court of the District of Columbia (EU), admitted a request submitted by the station against the person in charge of managing the United States Global Media Agency (USAGM), Kari Lake, to prevent the freezing of the federal subsidy that finances its activity in the US.
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“Usagm leadership cannot, with a single phrase of reasoning that practically offers no explanation, force RFE/RL to close, even if the president has ordered it,” the order said.
The lawsuit filed on March 18 against Lake and the Trump administration argued that denying the funds allocated by Congress violates federal laws and the constitution of the US, which exclusively grants Congress control over federal expenditure.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), based in Prague, is a means of communication financed with public funds but that works with editorial independence.
The magnate Elon Musk, the Trump’s main advisor, had already demanded in February the closure of RFE/RL, which he considered “radical left” and a waste of 1,000 million dollars in public money.
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The station, created during the Cold War to offer different information from that of the official authoritarian regimes channels, continues to play a key role in promoting press freedom in regions where access to independent information is restricted or limited.
With EFE information
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