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WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - The moms and dad firm of Voice of America said on Friday it had actually provided termination notices to over 639 more staff, finishing an 85% decrease in personnel given that March and efficiently spelling the end of a network established to counter Nazi propaganda.

Kari Lake, senior advisor to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, stated the staff reduction suggested 1,400 positions had actually been gotten rid of as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's agenda to cut staffing at the company to a statutory minimum.

"Reduction in Force Termination Notices were sent out to 639 staff members at USAGM and Voice of America, part of a long-overdue effort to dismantle a bloated, unaccountable bureaucracy," Lake stated in a declaration.

She stated the firm had been "riddled with dysfunction, bias, and waste."

Lake stated the move implied USAGM now operated near its statutory minimum of 81 staff members. She stated 250 workers would remain throughout USAGM, Voice of America, and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, which transfers news into communist-run Cuba. She said none of OCB's 33 employees had been ended.

The move likely marks an end to VOA, which was founded in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda, run in nearly 50 languages and reached 360 million individuals a week, numerous living under authoritarian routines.

In May, almost 600 VOA contractors were dismissed.

Some Republicans have accused VOA and other publicly funded media outlets of being prejudiced against conservatives, and required them to be shuttered as part of larger efforts to diminish the government.

Another USAGM station, Radio Free Asia, which has currently been decreased to skeleton staffing, said in a personnel email on Friday that it was executing additional furloughs in its human resources, regulation, reporter security, and research, training & evaluation groups.

Various lawsuit remain in train versus the USAGM cuts. (Reporting by David Brunnstrom, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)