Former Arizona newscaster Kari Lake, picked by President Donald Trump to manage Voice of America and the agency overseeing it, told a congressional committee that they were rotten to the core and should be scrapped.

Kari Lake's media agency will lay off over 600 journalists from Voice of America, reducing personnel by 85% since March. Lake states the layoffs dismantle a "bloated, unaccountable bureaucracy" and end taxpayer funding of an agency plagued by "dysfunction, bias and waste."