U.S. President Donald Trump's latest round of cuts to the federal government includes the 83-year-old Voice of America.

The president signed two new executive orders, one that repeals several Biden-era labor and environmental policies and another that severely cuts various independent agencies created by Congress.

WASHINGTON—President Trump ordered the dismantling of seven government offices, including the parent of Voice of America and another focused on solving homelessness, part of his continuing mission to reduce the size of the federal government.

Employees at Voice of America were placed on paid leave on Saturday and funding for two U.S. news services that broadcast to authoritarian regimes was slashed, one day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order gutting the government-funded media outlets' parent and six other federal agencies.

The United States Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA, among seven agencies deemed "unnecessary" by the White House

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to slash Voice of America. The plan looks to largely dismantle the government-funded media outlet as well as programs like Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.

The order targeting the agencies, which include one overseeing government-funded media outlets, appeared to test the bounds of the president’s power.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at gutting the parent of U.S. government-funded media outlet Voice of America and six other federal agencies, his administration's latest step to shrink bureaucracy.

Donald Trump is targeting the Voice of America and other U.S.-funded international broadcasting entities, as he signed an executive order on Friday to eliminate the functions of their oversight agency.