Nearly All Remaining Voice of America Employees Could Be Fired Under Plan NYT | Top Stories By: Minho Kim 5 June 2025 at 06:48 A proposed restructuring would leave only 18 employees at the federally funded news agency, which was founded in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda. © Eric Lee/The New York TimesThe Voice of America building in Washington. President Trump has accused the outlet, which delivers news in countries with authoritarian governments such as Russia, China and Iran, of spreading “anti-American” and partisan “propaganda.”